LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Women exploited

Surrogacy can involve dreadful exploitation in some cases. It is morally repugnant to see people renting wombs from women in poor countries, no matter how they try to dress it up. You don’t have a right to have a child at any cost, not least the cost to both the child and the exploited woman who gave birth to that child.
Andrew Flynn Inchicore, Dublin

In a muddle over virus hype and facts
Following on from his insightful article Stop taking cheap shots at the unvaccinated (Comment, last week) Barry Walsh or some member of that now rare species, “the investigative journalist”, might help us all by checking demographic statistics for the last year and a half, including all-cause mortality compared to previous