Human rights and abortion
Thursday November 23 2006
To describe someone responsible for undermining the right to life of the most defenceless section of society as a human rights lawyer appals me. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states, "Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person."
The right to life is the most basic and important human right; without it, all other rights are meaningless. Abortion is not a human right, it is a human wrong, because it is the direct and deliberate taking of an innocent human life.
Lawyers like Monica Roa would better serve humanity in general, and women's rights in particular, if instead of criticising those who can see that human life begins at fertilisation, they opened their eyes to the humanity and rights of all human life, born and unborn. EILIS GREALY, GALWAY FOR LIFE, OZANAM HOUSE, GALWAY
