Response to letter writer
Correspondents like Frankie Letford (Times, July 30) find it necessary to scorn the Christian religion because they cannot counter with logic the philosophy of life, which perfectly and independently aligns with that faith.
Likewise, their need to sneer at the very idea that abortion is murder, because there is no reasonable argument why the deliberate and targeted killing of another human being, with DNA distinct from that of its mother and perfectly formed in minutiae at every stage of its development, should not be called murder. Every development in medical science is in accord with the intuitive philosophy of life in this matter, and disdains the legal fiction of our current abortion laws. Inconvenience in any other area of life is not usually addressed by killing an innocent person who cannot defend herself (females are more often the target), especially when there are many great alternatives the state could fund.
Most prolifers refrain from using the word ‘murder’ out of respect for the poor women who are ensnared by the false and partial guidance given, in the name of ‘‘choice’’, by those who make a living in that lucrative line of work. It is now illegal, of course, to give impartial information anywhere near an abortion facility.
Getting a basic premise wrong is an occupational hazard of progressive parties.
The Democratic Party in America, the obvious idol of Frankie Letford, is now having to face up to the fact that, having slipped its moorings, it is being carried downstream by its own interior logic.
There are only two possible landfalls: shipwreck, in the form of ever-increasing doses of the wailing woke banshees of Marxist devil-worship, or the realisation that they were lead up the garden path by bad and unconstitutional law in Roe v Wade.
It will be an intriguing examination of conscience to observe, one that will determine the survival of the party, if not the nation.
As the party that favoured slavery, they have already triggered one civil war.
Tony Molloy, Morrinsville