Your columnist, Fionola Meredith, claims "It's time to cut out hysteria in debate on abortion here" (February 15, 2012) but she then launches into another hysterical diatribe against Precious Life, while declining to actually mention the group by name.

As in her previous articles, Fionola criticises Precious Life for showing "foul pictures ... gruesome leaflets and ghastly images of aborted foetuses". Once again, Fionola is inadvertently acknowledging that abortion is foul, gruesome and ghastly.

She implies that we are "narrow-minded" if we think that showing such pictures will - in her own words - "stop someone from murdering the little baby inside them."

Fionola, however, gave us a back-handed compliment when she said Precious Life have "succeeded in shifting the entire discourse about reproductive rights on to moral grounds."

We are pleased that we have been successful in showing the public that killing a baby in the womb is morally wrong and has nothing to do with so-called "reproductive rights".

She calls our politicians "disgraceful". Our pro-life politicians should be congratulated. They have shown they are genuinely concerned about equal rights and opportunities for women.

BERNADETTE SMYTH

Director, Precious Life

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