Tuesday, 16 April 2013

Letter to the Dominion Post, March 21 2013

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 pressured into abortion and everyone’s suffering prolonged.

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