WHERE FAMILY STARTS BUT SO OFTEN TRAGICALLY ENDS (Letter to Dom Post, June 30)

‘Family violence’, opines The Dominion Post (June 30), ‘remains a dreadful problem.’ You’re darn tooting right it does. And it will stay that way until we can face the fact that ‘the terrible loss of life’ you rightly denounce starts where family starts, but so often also tragically ends: in the womb.