Brian Ó Domhnaill (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Reference was made to President Reagan's statements in 1984. Twenty-six leading health professionals in the United States wrote to the President and outlined that it is an established fact that the unborn, the prematurely born and the newborn of the human species is a highly complex, sentient, functioning individual organism. That the human unborn and newly born respond to stimuli is also established beyond any reasonable doubt. According to Senator Burke and others, these professionals were not telling the truth in the letter they wrote to President Reagan.