Freedom of conscience
Sir, R. P. Dalziel went off on a wild motor-goose race (Ma., 30,. He obviously was not alert enough to justify, on moral grounds, the breaking of regulations, or he would not have been caught. He had the choice of conscience whether to break the law under the circumstances. The magistrate’s hypothetical child was, I take it, an actual child on its own two feet. It makes an entertaining story, and v ould have been relevant to my argument had a few-weeks-old foetus jumped out of its mother’s uterus to “wander on the road.” Unlike R. P. Dalziel. the pregnant woman cannot exercise
her conscience — even to take risks. Others do that for her. Pardon — she can exercise her conscience if she has the fare to Australia, or is prepared to face death in the back street. Incidentally, 1 enjoyed having my four children, but they were my choice as well as surety’s. -- Yours, etc., B. ROBERTS. May 31, 1978.
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