SUPREME COURT JUDGES INVENT THEIR OWN ANOMALY (Letter to Dom Post, Dec 20 2013)

In ruling that an unborn child isn’t ‘living’ for fear of creating anomalies (Dec 20), the Supreme Court justices have invented an anomaly of their own. Try telling a woman who’s endured the misery of miscarriage that her unborn child of two months’ gestation wasn’t ‘living’. If the child wasn’t ‘living’, why mourn it? Try telling the same thing to a woman who against every natural instinct sees herself forced by circumstance to undergo an abortion. If the child isn’t ‘living’, why go through the trauma of having it killed? Such disregard for the truth, to say nothing of common sense, will serve only to bring the law further into disrepute and accelerate New Zealand’s descent into anarchy.

 

Julia du Fresne