“Pretty soon you can imagine legislation prohibiting the washing of hands because thousands of cells are flaked off that could be turned into a stem cell and you can grow a foetus – so you’re killing a person. It’s attacks on women’s rights.”
Prof Noam Chomsky, speaking at a reception in UCD’s O’Reilly Hall. He was awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal, the university’s highest honour.
Colin Gleeson “Chomsky criticises restrictive abortion laws” The Irish Times Apr 3, 2013,
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/chomsky-criticises-restrictive-abortion-laws-1.1346993
