WHY ABORTION IS THE PRECURSOR TO CHILD ABUSE (Letter to Dom Post, July 1)

Maggie Miller (July 1) can’t understand why abortion is the precursor to child abuse. Of course parents should ‘take responsibility for the protection of children they bring into the world’. But doesn’t that automatically imply they should also take responsibility for their protection before they bring them into the world?

Look at the stats. See when child abuse first became a problem - soon after we legislated to kill unborn children. The reason why abortion is the precursor of child abuse is, if it’s okay to kill a child before it’s born, it’s okay after.

But before birth we can’t see them. And for most of us apparently, that makes all the difference.

WHY WE DEMONISE PEOPLE LIKE SHAILER AND HAEREWA (Letter to Dom Post,June 29)

‘Never let go of the rage’, says The Dominion Post (June 29) adding that ‘the treatment of poor Moko is indescribable’ – but then Duncan Garner, who ‘locked eyes with a monster’ describes the treatment in such detail, it smacks of voyeurism.

Your coverage of this horrible crime seems to suggest it’s what readers want. And the reason why we wallow in it, why we demonise people like Shailer and Haerewa is, we want to assure ourselves that we are not like them.

Because deep down we’re afraid we are, a little bit. Intuitively we understand that having over 40 years been responsible as a nation for killing 500,000 defenceless babies before birth, we’re also partly responsible for producing people like Shailer and Haerewa who torture and kill them after birth. They don’t see the difference - which after all is only that the babies are bigger, and we get to see their photos in the paper.

Let’s face it, rage sells newspapers. We have good reason to ‘express rage and anguish’: we know we are already morally lost.

YOU CAN BE ANTI-TOBACCO OR ANTI-OBESITY, BUT NOT ANTI-ABORTION (Letter - abridged - in SS Times, June 26)

The following letter was printed in the Sunday Star-Times on June 26. The text in italics was edited out.

Child abusers make Children’s Commissioner Russell Wills feel sick. Me too. But what makes me sicker is that a Children’s Commissioner can’t see the connection between abusing children we can see and children we can’t. 11 week-old Chris and Cru Kahui suffered head injuries and broken bones, and so do 11 week-old unborn children, who are just as human.

 

The reason “why communities accept violence by men against women and children” is, we accept violence also by women against women and children. And in abortion women do violence also to themselves - physically, emotionally and spiritually.

 

The rise in child abuse is logically linked to the rise in abortion. If it’s okay to abuse a child before it’s born, it’s okay to abuse it after.

 

But although you can be anti-tobacco or anti-obesity, who in the health industry is willing to stick their head above the parapet and be anti-abortion?

 

MURDOCH MOCKING THE MOTHER OF GOD (Letter to the Dom Post, June 21)

Murdoch, of course, has a perfect right to mock the Mother of God (June 21) but even a cartoonist has the concomitant responsibility of considering the consequences of his levity, even if it’s merely letters to the editor rather than masked gunmen storming the offices of The Dominion Post.

 

However, I won’t confine myself to predictable and entirely justifiable objections on the grounds of offence to Christians which would not be tolerated even in Islamic countries.

 

Although it may afford The Dominion Post an opportunity to reprint Murdoch’s insult - and make me a laughing stock - I have to say the publication of such effrontery in the capital’s daily paper makes me tremble for Wellington, the city I love.

 

God will not be mocked.

WELLINGTON HOSPITAL ADMITS IT'S BABIES THEY ABORT (Letter to Dom Post, June 20)

‘Under hospital policy, a baby born earlier than 23 weeks would be left to die’ (Party time for miracle baby, June 20). Note the terminology - it’s ‘a baby’. This amounts to a tacit admission that it is in fact babies, not ‘blobs of tissue’ not even ‘just fetuses’, who in the same hospital are routinely killed by abortion.

 

That throw-away line, in an otherwise delightful story about a cherished baby born at that gestational age who’s now celebrating her first birthday, is an utterly damning indictment of a selfish, materialistic and heartless society.

ANTI-TOBACCO AND ANTI-OBESITY IS FINE BUT WHAT ABOUT ANTI-ABORTION? (Letter published - edited - in Sunday Star-Times, June 26)

Child abusers make Children’s Commissioner Russell Wills feel sick. Me too. But what makes me sicker is that a Children’s Commissioner can’t see the connection between abusing children we can see and children we can’t. 11 week-old Chris and Cru Kahui suffered head injuries and broken bones, and so do 11 week-old unborn children, who are just as human.

The reason “why communities accept violence by men against women and children” is, we accept violence also by women against women and children. In abortion women do violence also to themselves - physically, emotionally and spiritually.

The rise in child abuse is logically linked to the rise in abortion. If it’s okay to abuse a child before it’s born, it’s okay to abuse it after.

But although you can be anti-tobacco or anti-obesity, who in the health industry is willing to stick their head above the parapet and be anti-abortion?

DR ROSY FENWICKE AND 'A TIME OF UNIVERSAL DECEIT' (Letter to Dom Post, June 18)

In his letter of June 17 Mike Woods quotes George Orwell, who in his book 1984 describes “a time of universal deceit”. And in her letter of the same date, Rosy Fenwicke mounts the moral heights to condemn Gordon Jenkins for stabbing a dog to death. “Any living creature”, she says, needs to be treated with respect and humanity”, adding that “a society is judged by how it looks after its weakest.”

 

But wait on. As a Certifying Consultant and abortionist, Fenwicke kills defenceless unborn humans for a living. Such breathtaking hypocrisy, taken together with Dr Fenwicke’s standing in society, perfectly illustrates the prophetic nature of George Orwell’s work.

 

That “time of universal deceit” has finally arrived.

MEDIA, MARRIAGE AND THE GADARENE SWINE (Letter to Dom Post, June 17)

I don’t suppose women start out in life with the expectation of ending it, either for their unborn children by abortion, or for their born children at one remove by exposing them in their own homes to ‘stranger danger’ in the shape of their latest ‘partner’ (Mum told new partner to leave crying infant, June 16).

It’s our throw-away culture which inures them to this lifestyle. If you don’t want your unborn child, get rid of it. If you don’t like your ‘partner’, get another one.

In sedulously avoiding any discussion around commitment and marriage – except for celebrating 70th wedding anniversaries, which reinforces the idea that marriage is passe - the media remind me of the biblical Gadarene swine, rushing to destruction. Because it’s proven that children (and so also our society) have the best outcomes, even in avoiding poverty, when their parents are married.