Ms Liz McDermott:

My experience was not that I was being forced to have an abortion. There was a kind of a lack of care, a lack of concern, a lack of provision for me which is all I was asking for. I did not need to be supported. I had already made that decision. My husband probably had not at that stage but I took the lead on it, I suppose.

There is not really a corollary. When one is talking about choosing to honour the life of a child and choosing to take it away, I do not see that one can put those two on the weighing scales and say that the two are really the same argument in reverse because I cannot bring myself to look at any child, any baby, as anything other than human potential and a member of our society who needs to be protected. That is where I stand with it.