Dear Editor,
As the Eighth Amendment is now up for general discussion I should like to contribute my ‘two cents’ by way of a quotation from the book, Maurice Baring Restored, by Paul Horgan, published by Heinemann.
This is the quotation: “One doctor to another, ‘about the termination of pregnancy – I want your opinion. The father was syphilitic. The mother was tubercular. Of the four children born, the first was blind, the second died, the third was deaf and dumb, the fourth was tubercular. What would you have done?’ ‘I would have ended the pregnancy.’ ‘Then you would have murdered Beethoven’.”
Yours etc.,
Fr Michael G. Murphy,
Bishopstown,
Cork.