Larissa Nolan claims we were all “on the same side all along” in last year’s referendum on the eighth amendment (“A year on, and we can close the abortion box”, Comment, last week). She makes a logical fallacy in suggesting that supporters of legalising and enabling abortion did so because they want less abortion. However, I was glad to see Nolan call out some of the more vulgar untruths of the repeal campaign, such as the suggestion that abortion regret among women is “makey-uppy”.
On the back of Nell McCafferty’s avowed doubt about voting yes, and Dolores O’Riordan’s brave quote about the effect of abortion on women, how can it suddenly be “time to close the box” and “move on”? Nothing about abortion has changed