"I have to say that I can't be a supporter of abortion."
Not even in these circumstances?
Abortion is not just to control population - there are many reasons why it is both necessary and preferable
Your church, up to now, has denied access to any reliable form of women controlling their lives, using the crudest and most frightening threats to preventing them doing so - the end result has been over-population among the poorest, misery, illness and even the death of the mother on many occasions.
After careful consideration, most civilised nations have reached a humane and practical solution, yet the church remains adamant on the subject.
As far as the church is concerned, a woman's role is to produce babies, and the arguments used are not un-similar to those used to demonise homosexuality.
Hopefully, that will end in the foreseeable future in "Holy Ireland" - I certainly hope that it happens in my lifetime.
]t really isn't the business of a self-appointed sect of celibate male mystics to decide what takes place in the bedrooms of the world.
As with many of the arguments against same-sex marriage, the decision of the father is yet another red-herring fathers have as little say in producing a family as do mothers - decisions of whether to have children should be a matter for both without the intervention of the man in the collar.
Jim Carroll