We’re paying price for Abortion Act

I read J T Hardy’s most heartfelt letter against abortion carefully (Bath Chronicle, Opinion, October 13).

We have dug a great black hole for ourselves, as a nation, chasing secular pseudo-values.

The adverse personal, social and national consequences of the 1967 Abortion Act cannot be exaggerated; most of our people experience these every day and are unaware that the many millions of lives lost in the last 50 or more years are a major cause.

As a nation, we have a great shortage of workers, when so many of us are well beyond working age.

This is a minor worry compared to the never-born and the harm to women. Thank you for your attention and God bless you.

Bernard Barron

By email

I am writing in support of the traders and residents in the ‘village community’ of the Moorland Road area (Bath Chronicle, October 20th).

I note that in the council’s previous consultation (Oldfield Park and Westmoreland) 50% of responders objected to the Residents’ Parking Zone scheme; 16% partially opposed/supported and 34% supported the proposals.

More recently, the Moorland Road Association conducted their own survey and the following results were reported by Somerset Live: 100% of shops and businesses and not-for-profit organisations object to the plans; 61% of residents object to the plans; 25% of residents support the council’s plans with 49% wanting no scheme at all.

100% of those who live outside the zone but work within it object to the plans; 89% of those who live and work outside the zone object to the plans and 100% of shops and businesses believe the plans will harm their business and the high street.

The results of the several RPZ consultations are very difficult to locate on the Council’s website; could this be deliberate since they almost universally oppose the RPZ schemes?

Are these consultations on RPZS (and similarly on LTNS) consultations in name only? Why is the Council choosing to ignore the clearly expressed views of the people?

In a recent edition of The Chronicle our MP Wera Hobhouse criticised local MP Jacob Rees-mogg in the context of fracking saying that ‘The Government consistently ignores the wishes of the local community.’

Perhaps she needs to address her criticism to B&NES too in this context of RPZ consultations!

Dr Michael Noakes Bath