Why I do not believe abortion is right

THE decision to overturn Roe v Wade in the US is far from some backward step in any direction as some correspondents have suggested. Whether viewed from a democratic or humanistic viewpoint, in my view, the correct decision was reached.

This issue now becomes the responsibility for individual states to decide, the system that is the very bedrock of the American political foundation. Elected representatives will now have the mandate to implement abortion polices and not unelected supreme court justices.

The whole process of carrying out an abortion is so ghastly and unnatural, that it is hard to comprehend how anyone could encourage or even celebrate having the opportunity to have such a procedure so wantonly.

Science is agreed that human life begins once fertilisation takes place, so abortion is ultimately the destruction of human life, however early that this takes place.

An unborn child is having every natural and rightful opportunity that life offers unnaturally and unrightfully denied to them.

Those in favour of this desire espouse selfish slogans such as “my body, my choice”, which is illogical in the extreme; one wonders what sort of society we would have if we all followed this sentiment through to it’s conclusion.

Others have used this to attack religion or specifically Christianity, and indeed as Christianity respects the sanctity of human life, most Christians will by definition be pro-life.

However, this goes beyond one’s viewpoint on religion to the question of whether one human life has the right to destroy another human life?

I would hope that we all agree that this is wrong.

Amid all the talk these days of human rights, what greater human right is there than that all human life once conceived is given the chance to be born?

Adam Oakley, Chaddesden