The abortion debate
Sir, — Yes, abortion is more progressive — towards a kind of geno-suicide. No society has ever survived the slaughter of its children. Abortion will deny us at least some of those very few — one in many tens of thousands — whose initiative genius makes civilisation possible. People, for example, like Imhotep, Euclid, Quintus Fabius Maximus, Leonardo da Vinci (who was illegitimate), Newton, Beethoven, and Einstein, illustrate civilisation’s need for a continuing supply of such people to survive.' Tomorrow’s child must not be killed. —- Yours, etc., G. K. MURROW Rakaia. December 11, 1977.
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