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The Association for the Improvement in the Maternity Services (AIMS) Ireland is calling for the immediate repeal of the 8th amendment on foot of “the most recent appalling ordeal the Irish health and legal systems have forced a pregnant woman to endure”, IMT reports.

Regardless of your views on abortion, Dr Ruiari Hanley believes any political culture that so ruthlessly suppresses dissent — like it has done with Deputies Lucinda Creighton, Peadar Tóibín and others — is not to be admired.

Newly-elected member of the Medical Council Dr Ruairi Hanley does not believe there is a Catholic conspiracy to influence the profession and its regulatory body around the abortion issue.

Dear Editor, I am writing to you regarding the recent letter in Irish Medical Times by Barbara Western and Jene Kelly of AIMS Ireland (‘IMT columnist is wrong to claim a cynical ploy to increase abortions’, March 15, 2013, http://bit.

Dear Editor, In reply to the recent opinion column by Dr Ruairi Hanley entitled ‘Social abortion via the back door’ (IMT, March 1, 2013, http://bit.

By Lloyd Mudiwa.