THE REASON WHY POLICE ARE STRUGGLING WITH FAMILY VIOLENCE (Letter to Dom Post, June 30)

Forgive me if I point out once again a truth that must be blindingly obvious to any rational thinker.

 

The reason why police are struggling as cases of family violence increase (June 30) is that probably one in three NZ women has undergone at least one abortion.  

When we sanction the violent deaths of thousands of children before birth at the wish of their own mothers we can only expect violence to permeate society, as it has. Hidden in the womb, those children might be out of sight, but for the sake of New Zealand’s future we can’t afford to keep them out of mind.

ABORTION IS 'TANTAMOUNT TO MURDER', TOO (Letter to Dom Post, June 20)

We’re all appalled by the street attack in London (Unborn baby targeted in horror street attack, June 19) on a woman’s unborn child. ‘It seems all the violence was targeted at the child. It is tantamount to murder,’ says Scotland Yard.  

But you have to wonder what’s the difference between an attack targeted at an unborn child in the street and an attack targeting an unborn child in an abortion clinic. This child was wanted and children in abortion clinics are not, but objectively speaking, attacks on the latter must logically also be called ‘tantamount to murder’.  

Only in an abortion clinic it’s supposed to be legal, so we can’t call it murder. But then, in abortion clinics the law is honoured in the breach rather than the observance.

 

Which means abortion is precisely ‘tantamount to murder and beyond the pale’.

 

WHY DIDN'T ANYONE ASK MATT VICKERS THE OBVIOUS QUESTION? (Letter to Dom Post, June 7)

I’m sorry, but I’m having trouble reconciling two statements by Matt Vickers (Isn't this my body? My life? June 6), whose wife Lecretia Seales died on Saturday of natural causes, frustrated in her wish for assisted suicide.  

Vickers stated that ‘there was no mistaking her response’, (to Justice Collins’ judgement). ‘She was hurt and disappointed’. Then in the next breath he says, ‘I am relieved that Lecretia was unconscious and unresponsive when we received it.’ 

A glaringly obvious question has gone unasked by any of the journalists present at that media conference. The fact that none commented on the inconsistency in Vickers’ script suggests they were all carried away by a tsunami of the sentimentality - not to mention blatant bias, as demonstrated in Tv One ’s ‘reportage’ that night - that has so far characterised the euthanasia debate in the media.