ANOTHER CLUTCH OF INFLAMMATORY LETTERS NEVER TO BE EXPOSED TO UNPROTECTED DOMPOST READERS: 

A trowel, to dig a long drop in Wellington soil? (Rush on bottled waters as residents stock up, July 23.) All those Berhampore flatmates would achieve would be a short drop. 

Julia du Fresne

 

Why can’t a male represent (act on behalf of) a female? (Quotas may be needed to boost female MPs, A7, July 8.) Because he’s not her sex? But why stop there? I’m blonde (a dangerous admission) and blue-eyed. So according to Deborah Russell’s reasoning, only a blue-eyed blonde can represent me in Parliament.  

Julia du Fresne

 

Why should a teacher lose his job for mistakenly broadcasting pornography to his classroom (Porn accidentally broadcast to class, A3, July 4), when school librarians will shortly stocking their shelves with  NZ Post Children’s Book Awards winner Into the River? They might as well issue condoms to go with it. I’d love to quote an excerpt, but the Dominion Post would never expose its readers to the soft porn, paedophilia and drug-taking NZ Post sees as good – no, the best! – for teenagers.

Julia du Fresne

 

Let’s hear it for Shawnee Ormsby-Ryder (Baby puts teen back on track, July 1), a girl not to be gulled. And for the University of Canterbury’s Jenny Hindin-Miller, whose research shows that ’none of the women I interviewed had regret about becoming a teen parent’. How do the ‘pro-choice’ brigade think teens tricked into abortion must feel when they read such a story, and see such a photograph?

Julia du Fresne

 

If only women who decide to ‘do this small, unhappy thing’ (Caitlin Moran’s euphemism for abortion in A bouquet on its way to a gutsy politician, June 28) knew they were committing themselves precisely to the ‘endless unhappiness’ they hope to avoid.

Does Moran have any understanding of the horrible, long-lasting and ripple effects of abortion, especially on the mother? Has she not seen the research proving a woman’s mental health suffers far more from abortion than from giving birth? The studies which show that if brought to birth, unwanted pregnancies almost always turn into wanted babies?

In abortion, not only is one life painfully ended, but the life of the mother and to a lesser extent, the lives of surviving siblings and the father – if he knows - are damaged, and if healing isn’t sought and found, damaged forever.

Julia du Fresne