There is growing anecdotal evidence that couples in Irish hospitals are being pressured into having abortions after being informed that their babies suffer from a serious disability. This is eugenics, and it violates both the right to life and, paradoxically, the right to choose.

In his column in The Irish Catholic this week, David Quinn writes about two cases where women felt under pressure to abort and describes how Irish medical practice, especially the dictum, ‘first, do no harm’ is now being badly compromised both by a eugenicist mentality and by the ‘right-to-choose’ philosophy.

The column can be read in full here.