Me neither.
Not even in THE IRISH TIMES, which welcomed Hitler’s accession to power in the 1930s, was a ventriloquist’s dummy for British repression in Ireland in 1920 and has reverted to
that role in recent decades. Welcoming Hitler, the paper recognised that he was a rough customer but it actually wrote that you can’t make an omelette without breaking an egg.
Today the paper specialises in scrambling brains.
The Opinion & Analysis section of that paper has a photograph of six young women with the six words – NO RETURN TO BACK STREET ABORTIONS professionally rendered in
18 inch capitals on their placards.
Underneath there is a major article by Tony Garnett, a distinguished film maker whose credits include Kes, Cathy Come Home and Up the Junction, made in the 1960s. I can understand his emotional grief because he says that backstreet abortion killed his mother and changed his life.
But any rational analysis must recognise that you can’t perform an abortion without lethally changing a life. Has Mr Garnett never considered his sibling’s terminated life?
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