WHEN YOU CAN'T SEE YOUR VICTIM YOU FEEL SAFE TO BE CRUEL (Letter to Dom Post, Feb 19)

‘When you can’t see your victim and the hurt you’re causing in your victim’s eyes, you feel safe to be cruel.’ Exactly. This comment by a researcher into cyber-bullying (Facebook’s ‘blood-pack frenzy’ warning in study, Feb 19), goes a long way towards explaining the infinitely more serious cruelty of abortion.

 

Julia du Fresne

WE ARE HERE TO SUFFER (Letter to Dom Post, Feb 18)

Thank God, I say advisedly, for Sue Reid’s hard-gained experience and wisdom on the subject of euthanasia (Euthanasia has a proven ‘slippery slope, Feb 18), which confirms the Christian view of suffering: accepted with love and courage, it makes us more like Christ. That’s why the heroic French saint Therese of Lisieux stated that ‘we are here to suffer’.

Julia du Fresne

JUSTICE IS ROOTED IN GOD (Letter to Dom Post, Feb 18)

The universal principle of justice, says Stephen Hawking (Where is our sense of collective justice for Syria?), may not be rooted in physics. He's right: justice is rooted in God. That’s why it’s both universal and fundamental. And the reason why we ‘watch on as 100,000 are killed or whilst children are being targeted’ is, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, ‘we have forgotten God’. 

Julia du Fresne

STRANGE GODS (Letter to Dom Post, Feb 6)

The phenomenon of the child superstar self-destructing in adulthood (Bieber rebellion a flag for Lorde, Feb 6) as described by Rosemary McLeod is easily explained, and her fears for Lorde well justified, by the first of the ten commandments - ‘I am the Lord your God; you shall not have strange gods before me’. 

Julia du Fresne

NOW THE COVER DESIGN FOR 'THE AGE FOR LOVE' RUNS INTO COPYRIGHT TROUBLE

The latest spanner to be thrown into the works of publishing my novel The Age for Love as an 'indie' ebook is an email from the Ozzie copyright agency representing the artist - who unfortunately for me hasn't been dead long enough yet - for the artwork I'm using for the cover, telling me overprinting the work is a no-no.

I would rather have been told before I went to the time and expense of having the cover designed, but it's now redesigned (and incidentally, improved). Now he/she - it's one of those genderless monikers - tells me if I use the digital file I found on the internet, the copyright he/she's granted will be void.

The agency's obviously keen to get the $370 fee. Tarred with the same brush as the literary agents whose emails have haunted me for the past year.

WOMEN'S RIGHTS CAMPAIGNERS HOIST WITH THEIR OWN PETARD

I suppose women’s rights campaigners (Drinking in pregnancy could be a criminal act, Feb 3) realise the invidiousness of their position. They don’t want the law to find women guilty of damaging their babies during pregnancy by drinking alcohol, because they themselves got the law to allow women to kill their babies during pregnancy by having them aborted. They are hoist with their own petard.  

Julia du Fresne

THE ABORTION WAS BOTCHED (Letter to Dom Post, Jan 31)

Margaret Sparrow (Points, Jan 31) thinks unwanted pregnancies are a problem. So of course do millions of women all over the world – for a few months. But as my daughter and I can attest, if or when their baby is born they’re usually overcome with joy.  

Margaret Sparrow also thinks abortion is not a problem. I doubt the young woman who was taken out of school for an abortion by the school nurse and a year later tried to hang herself, who is now still depressed and suicidal, would agree. The abortion was botched and she will never have a child. 

Julia du Fresne

FACTS ARE NO SUBSTITUTE FOR THE TRUTH (Letter to Dom Post, Jan 31)

Nicholas C Sault (Letters, Jan 31) trashes ‘creationist nonsense’ and his paean to DNA, evidence, information and knowledge. He might like to reflect on the dictum that facts are no substitute for the truth.

Julia du Fresne