Can taking a human life be a human right?

CONCERNING the Western Mail article (“Parliament pressured on Northern Ireland abortion laws”, June 8), it’s no surprise now to see pressure increased on the Province to bring about abortion on demand, for that is the aim of those who use hard cases to prise open doors. As the saying goes, “hard cases make bad laws”.

Now that southern Ireland’s people have voted for abortion, it’s clear that there will be no protection for innocent unborn children in that country. Pressure for euthanasia is sure to follow, apparently all in the name of human rights and with euphemistic language, eg “prochoice”.

God help the future unborn children of Northern Ireland should this happen there – no bombs, just a silent holocaust of the innocents, in the name of human rights of course.

On the issue of those who call abortion of the innocents a prochoice matter, when China had a “one child” policy where women were forced to undergo abortion, I can’t remember them shouting about the injustice of such a policy. There was no choice for the woman who wanted to keep her baby – what about the human rights of those mothers?

Wrap it up in any language you like, get the highest and mightiest courts in the world to make abortion a human right, the question remains – what is an abortion?

And what happens when it takes place? One human being ceases to exist.

Under such laws, who among us is now safe? Paul Botto Information Officer (Wales/ Cymru) The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children