It’s morphed
In addition to being upset by pro-life campaigners talking about abortion, D Carter is now complaining that we are talking about Christianity, insulting us again, and demanding that we should refute his argument that pro-lifers handing out leaflets are behaving inappropiately.
Right to life
It is true that arguments should be refuted, not ignored, but D Carter (Your Say, May 30) does not actually have an argument.
It is ridiculous to think that because children need protection it is therefore wrong to give anti-abortion leaflets to adults who happen to be accompanied by their children.
It is doubly ridiculous to think that not involving children is tantamount to involving children.
I look forward to receiving the courtesy of a reply to our main argument.
All human beings have a right to life. Babies in the womb are nothing more and nothing less than the young of the human species.
Therefore they have a right to life.
Bernard John Toolan
Life is precious
D Carter (Your Say, May 30) has provoked quite a correspondence over the distribution of a pro-life educational leaflet at the Olympic Torch reception on Plymouth Hoe.
As the torch continues its travels, a further seven cities have been similarly leafleted stating “Every new life is more precious than gold”. People need to know about abortion because abortion is legal in this country and carried out with public money. Since leaving Penzance, by the time the torch reaches its final destination in London, 40,000 babies will be aborted.
International human rights law acknowledges the right to life of each unborn child and those who snipe from the sidelines at ‘single issue zealots’ are able to do so because their right to life was upheld at conception and they were allowed to be born and have a voice. They reserve the right not to give their own opinion on abortion and would decide for others where is, or is not, the correct venue to distribute inoffensive pro-life literature to adults.
In effect, this is gagging those people who would be a voice for the unborn. Where does Mr Carter think would be a suitable venue to distribute pro-life information. Surely babies and families go together? For some people there is never a suitable time or place to inform about abortion. This deafening silence is the reason we have tolerated more than seven million abortions in this green and pleasant land since the passing of the abortion act in 1967.
Further, is Mr Carter aware, that vulnerable young and single women are the main target of abortion providers as the abortion sector seeks to widen their markets by promoting failed birth-control practices and by promoting abortion as a normal part of people’s sexual health needs.
Pro-life groups deal with women suffering the aftermath of an abortion and many women who regret their abortions maintain that “abortion doesn’t solve problems, it creates new ones”. Women have a right to know this.
Christine Hudson