GIVEN the large number of anti abortion letters in The Examiner of late, a cynic might suspect an orchestrated campaign was in operation. Strangely, these writers all link the exposure of the Life group for showing these gory videos to schoolchildren with the Department of Education's Relationships and Sexuality Education Programme.
A few years ago the same family values brigade were shouting against the stay safe initiative in schools. After many years of distressing revelations about the sexual and physical abuse of children it is a disgrace that a political party, the National Party, should line themselves up with those who might prevent children having some means of protecting themselves against abuse.
The problem these people have seems to be the inclusion of the word sexuality in the programme, but by all accounts the sex aspect comprises only a small part of the course. Only the terminally paranoid could link the disgusting American abortion videos with the issue of protecting children from abuse and preparing them for life in the modern Ireland. In fact showing such videos is a form of abuse in itself and could have serious effects on the minds of vulnerable children.
M Glennon,