I was grateful to David Grech for his polite analysis (‘Possible abortifacient’, July 23) of my article, ‘Ovarian obsessions’ (July 13). But, regrettably, he missed the central point of my argument.

The discussion about the morning-after pill is overridingly about women’s human rights.

It is about a woman’s right to choose. It is about a woman’s right to control her own fertility and reproductive health.

It is about a woman’s right, in all consciousness, having weighed all the factors – practical, medical, ethical, moral, social or psychological – to choose her own contraceptive device and to expect due respect and acknowledgement of that choice from the State.

It is a matter of personal conscience and informed choice, not the dictates of the State or, for that matter, the Church, or any other lobby group with a paranoid obsession about the bogey of abortion.