Dear Editor, I have to disagree with Danny Cusack’s reference to “squandering the pro-life movement for a tawdry triumph” in the election of Donald Trump as US President (Letters, IC 15/12/2016)
I also left Amnesty over its campaigning for abortion, the destruction of the most vulnerable and helpless of all, but, if Hillary Clinton had been elected, with her complete backing of the biggest abortion provider of all, International Planned Parenthood (IPP), to which the Irish Family Planning Association is affiliated, there would have been no hope of preventing the continuing aggressive campaign for abortion worldwide. She is on record as supporting abortion up to and including birth for any reason and would have ensured that IPP would have continued to receive billions of dollars for this purpose. I definitely think that after 59 million abortions in the US since Roe-v-Wade it is time to call a halt.
It is hard to know how Donald Trump’s presidency will go but we were very well aware of how a Clinton one would turn out. It should be noted that the media here have continued to lambast Mr. Trump while lionising Hillary Clinton. Therefore, surely it is only right to give the President-elect a chance and I certainly am happy that he will not pursue the promotion of abortion as has been the case till now. I am not that happy with some of his proposals and hope that he does not pursue them but I am convinced that the most pressing issue is to stop the slaughter of the innocents through abortion.
Yours etc.,
Mary Stewart
Donegal Town,
Co. Donegal.
