All children, says Jonathan Boston in reference to child poverty (How
New Zealand can cut child poverty, May 19), should be able to participate
fully in society.
What about the children who can’t participate in society at all? Children
who die every day in agony, ripped limb from limb before birth, in abortion
facilities? Boston talks of strategies informed by ‘sound ethical principles’. A
society which kills its most vulnerable citizens has no ethical principles and
consequently no hope of real prosperity for children who survive the womb.
Boston wants ‘an integrated policy package’. How ‘integrated’ is policy which
kills children before birth, then wants the best for them after birth?
On the same page, under the headline Value of free speech
immense, we read that our freedom to express ourselves is
threatened by ‘a rising tide of offence-taking and indignation’. In persistently
refusing to publish letters addressing the hypocrisy and double-speak around the
issue of abortion, The Dominion Post is presumably kowtowing to what
Joanna Norris of the NZ Media Freedom committee calls the argument that people
have ‘the right not to be offended’.
If that’s not the case, then you’ll publish this letter.
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