Holocaust is not so different to abortions

DAVID Fullerton ( Write Back, May 18) attacks the claim of Robert Dowey ( Write Back, May 14) that abortion, euthanasia and the Holocaust have features in common. So abhorrent is this view to him that he wishes that the Belfast Telegraph had censored it.

He describes the Holocaust as the decision of a small number of crazed extremists. However, they could not have put their ideolog y into practice without the complicity of millions who were not robotic. It was their choice.

Similarly, in England, the killing of the unborn on demand requires the complicity of thousands of medical staf f.

Of the eight million killed so far, the majority were not for the reasons advanced by pro-abortionists here (sexual crime and fatal foetal abnormality), but for social reasons. This enormous number belies the claim of Niamh Casey ( Write Back, May 8) that abortion rates decline where it is legal.

David Fullerton asserts that, in contrast to the Holocaust, the choice in abortion is controlled by the persons involved. One such person is the helpless unborn, who is given no choice or rights.

Guernsey has (correctly) rejected assisted suicide. Were the law to be rela xed, the boundaries would keep extending, as in the Netherlands, where they have reached the depressed. This ref lects what happened with the 1967 Abortion Act.

So, we see that there are parallels.

DONALD GALE By email