Peter Mathews (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The letter continues:

As Lord David Steel has discovered when it comes, it does not go. Abortion is the most heinous deed a man or a woman can be part of. James Reilly's claim that he will control it is childish.

James Sheehan, Sister Consilio and their colleagues have said that once the legislative framework comes in with section 9, we can be certain, by reference to other jurisdictions in which they have worked, that it will lead to increased numbers of abortions. James Sheehan told me that every time a procedure, as it is called, or a termination happens in those circumstances, it is killing an unborn child. We have got to do it. That is what is repugnant.

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