Wednesday, 1 February 2017

THE SLIPPERY SLOPE TO INSENSITIVITY (Letter to Dom Post, Feb 2)


Rosemary McLeod (World's on the slippery slope to insensitivity, February 2), cites a drowning in Venice that people filmed but didn’t prevent, and fears we risk forgetting the ties that bind us "into a world fit to live in".
We started losing "kindness, consideration, empathy, tolerance and trust" the day we decided not to prevent loss of life in utero, regardless of the suffering inflicted on the mother, and the pain and loss of life inflicted on the child. Or would the mainstream media claim it was those very same qualities which prevented them publishing film which showed Planned Parenthood callously discussing – over lunch - the profits to be made from the sale of fetal body parts?
Rosemary says Trump is a fantasist, but when it comes to abortion he’s a realist. And to Rosemary prayers may be boring, but the fact is the callousness she rightly deplores has grown in the Western world in inverse proportion to prayer.

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