Don’t Make Him Angry

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Dr Peter Boylan responds to the eleven members of Opus Dei consultants that attacked his credibility yesterday.

The signatories then go on to assert their certainty that termination of pregnancy can be performed “where ruptured membranes are accompanied by any clinical or bio-chemical marker of infection”. This is a truly astonishing statement. It implies that an elevated white blood cell count, which is a non-specific marker of inflammation, on its own would justify a termination of pregnancy. Such an opinion would not surprisingly be welcomed by those advocating a complete liberalisation of the abortion law in Ireland because, if adopted, would truly “open the floodgates”. I suspect that many of our colleagues in active clinical practice would not subscribe to this view.

 

Irish Times letters

Previously: Toxic Culture

Peter Boylan And Breda O’Brien: The Transcript

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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