Destroying an unborn child is an affront to God and a gross violation of the right to life

IN her letter (Write Back, December 19), Clare Bailey MLA says that abortion on demand, which applies in Great Britain, should be imposed on Northern Ireland by Westminster, using human rights legislation.

As a pro-abortionist, she does not afford any human rights to the unborn, but they are persons nevertheless.

Under the 1967 Abortion Act, disabled children can be destroyed up to birth. Where a disability, such as Down’s syndrome, is detected, women come under pressure from medical staff to abort, the implication being that their child would be a drain on NHS resources.

Yet those who escape this fate are given every encouragement to make the most of their lives. Logical?

Not content with this, influential people in Great Britain are pressing for abortion at any time for any reason.

Human laws do not, in themselves, make any practice right or wrong.

Nazi Germany used law to eliminate people whose continued existence was deemed inconvenient. Thousands of Germans were complicit. Likewise, thousands in Britain are involved in the killing of some 200,000 children annually.

The personhood of the developing child is revealed in Psalm 139 and other scriptures. To attack and kill the unborn is to destroy the image of God with resulting guilt.

Many women who abort feel this guilt.