Abortion clinic

Press, 26 October 1982, Page 24

Abortion clinic

Sir,—The abortion figure is symptomatic of a far wider problem — a confusion in true and false values. The attitude that, “it is the mother's freedom to choose,” has prevailed to the extent it could well lead to abortion on demand. There are so many laws limiting individual freedoms. Why then should the individual's freedom of choice prevail when it is a matter of life or death? This policy is unfairer still when the unborn child’s freedom to choose is impossible. There is a universal law that clarifies true values from false and applies to the fate of the unborn child. The law is: “Act only on that maxim through which you .can at the same time will that it should become universal law." In a derivatively simple way: "How would things stand if my reasonings for an abortion (abortion clinic) became a universal law?"— Yours, etc., P. J. BURROWES. October 20, 1982.

Sir,—The quite reasonable caution of Mr Malcolm's scrutiny of the priorities of Government spending is justifiable. The pro-life movement has frequently drawn attention to the lack of scientific support for the claimed psychiatric benefit of “therapeutic" abortion. The review of literature on the subject reveals a lack of clear decisions for or against abortions, poor definition of psychological symptoms experienced by patients, etc., indecisiveness, and critical attitudes in writers from the various disciplines. They admit cautiously that in all this flawed research there just might be “a weighing of evidence on the side of those who are now passionately opposed to abortion.”—Yours, etc., MRS M. E. MYERS. October 21, 1982.