Education young people are receiving on abortion unlikely to direct them towards correct choices

DAVID Fullerton’s letter (Write Back, October 3) describes the clash of worldviews between the traditional Christian view of human life and that of secularists.

To compare the killing of an unborn human baby to that of an animal shows the poverty of thought in the latter. Christianity changed Graeco-Roman society from disposing of unwanted children, born and unborn, to be eaten by animals, or birds, to viewing them as having inherent dignity and worth and, until 1967, that was still the overriding view.

There is, indeed, evidence now that the unborn do feel pain and I should have thought that the fact that Dr Hutchinson, to whose letter (Write Back, October 2) he was replying, is a medical practitioner would have convinced him that he knew what he was writing about.

If killing an unborn child by pulling its limbs off and crushing its skull is not barbaric, what is? This is happening daily in partial-birth abortions and is not well-understood or well-monitored (eg the Marie Stopes report).

I agree that “women undergoing termination procedures should be informed and have the risks pointed out”, but it appears that, in many cases, the only chance they have of that is from peaceful opponents handing out leaflets outside the abortion clinics: groups these clinics want to be stopped.

Certainly, educate young adults (not children), but the education they already get nowadays, especially on the mainland, is often not the one which values them as human beings, who can control their bodies until marriage, but just seeks to limit the damage done by “safe sex” at an ever earlier age.

We have a choice as to which worldview we subscribe. I know which one I prefer.

STELLA WILSON Tandragee, Co Armagh