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’.