David Quinn: Illegal abortion advice is putting lives at risk -- so why is it ignored?

Writing in today's Irish Independent columnist David Quinn takes the Irish media to task for ignoring stories about dangerous and possibly illegal advice gives by some crisis pregnancy services:

However, aside from this newspaper, most of the rest of the media haven't considered it to be of any importance at all.

The 'Irish Times' hasn't reported a line of it, even though it gave extensive coverage to the rogue anti-abortion agencies. How on earth can it justify this?

RTE barely mentioned it and to the best of my knowledge it has featured on none of the station's discussion programmes.

In fact, on the day the story broke, RTE judged that a new study showing smoking can damage your health (breaking story -- dog bites man!) was more newsworthy than the revelation that women are receiving illegal and dangerous advice at pro-choice clinics.

Read the full article here.