Abortion

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30835, 21 August 1965, Page 14

Abortion

Sir, —We have in our family four lovely, active children, ours by adoption. If those who justify abortion had their way, these would have been destroyed in the womb. Abstract thinking may attempt to justify such action, but it surely betrays some terrible failure either of the imagination or of the conscience. Surely the long, upward climb of the centuries has brought us beyond the point whereon any grounds, other than the life of the mother—we can justify such a return to barbarism.—Yours, etc., SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN. August 19, 1965.

Sir,—lf destruction of a minute embryo savours of “murder,” what can be said of medical action which makes a choice between the life of a mother and that of her unborn babe, and sacrifices the mother to let the babe live? Is this not at least as “murderous” as abortion? 1 have seen illegitimate children kept by unmarried mothers, grow up to hate and despise not only the brave parent, but society as a whole. Meanwhile the law, in abortion only, as distinct from all other crime, does not punish accessories and accomplices. This is flagrantly unjust. If abortion is to remain a legal crime at least ensure that the person who importunes an abortionist shall stand in the same dock.—Yours, etc., DO SOMETHING NOW-

August 19, 1965. [This correspondence may may now cease.—Ed., “The Press.”]