Unborn baby, or unborn something or other else?-

So the Families Commission in sorting itself out under the Government’s White Paper on Vulnerable Children has discovered ‘scandalous expenditure’. Maybe that’s a consequence of the White Paper ignoring the extremely vulnerable children, in the womb, which is now the most dangerous place for a child to be. In other words, the Government is deceiving itself and its White Paper is a lie. We pretend (inconsistently, as we concede it’s a child when it’s wanted) that the unborn baby is an unborn something or other else. And as Sir Walter Scott said, ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to deceive.’

While my heart aches for women suffering the trauma of abortion, and for their whanau – and given the numbers, very few families in New Zealand today are not affected – the longer we keep up this pretence, the more women will be coerced into abortion and everyone’s suffering prolonged.