Concern at abortion risk

Press, 12 May 1981, Page 21

Concern at abortion risk

PA Wellington Abortion was only aesthetically less deplorable than child bashing or infanticide, the Social Credit Leader (Mr Beetham) said at the weekend. Addressing the national conference of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn

Child, he said that it was biological fact that the foetus was a separate human life in anatomical. physiological and other terms. Society must have the right to concern itself w’ith the present and future health of women and children at risk.

He understood complica-

tions were much more likely to occur in future pregnancies if any abortion had been performed on a w’oman previously.

His support of the pro-life movement was based on logic and philosophy rather than religion, Mr Beetham said.

The Working Women’s Charter was a communistinspired manifesto and an extension of socialist feminism, he said. It attacked the family unit. The purpose, in the minds of its originators, was to aid the collapse of democratic society, they would use the resulting chaotic conditions to set up their own form of government. The Labour member of Parliament for Eastern Hutt (Mr T. J. Young) in his address said that the public and press wanted to class the pro-life movement as "conservative” and labelled them “fuddy-duddies.”