Tuesday, 4 June 2013

A Death Wish Granted and an Erstwhile Friend Turned Foe


Death wish granted (letter to Dompost, May 28): 

Nikki Turner of the Child Poverty Action Group (When a tax break penalises poorest children, May 28) aptly quotes Dame Anne Salmond as saying ‘a nation that does not care for its children has a death wish’.  With around 18,000 unwanted children dead by abortion every year, surely New Zealand has already been granted ours. 

Julia du Fresne

 

Amnesty International: my ertswhile friend, turned foe (letter to Dompost, May 30):

Here’s Amnesty International saying Papua New Guinea’s taken ‘one step forward in protecting women from violence’ but ‘several giant steps back’ by moving closer to the death penalty. But Amnesty now promotes both the death penalty and violence to women in the form of abortion. That’s why I resigned from AI: you can’t dance with a partner who think they’re taking a step forward, when actually they’re going backwards.
 
Julia du Fresne

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