Just how Peggy Klimenko and Dave Armstrong (Letters, March 24) can equate vasectomy and abortion, I don’t know. A vasectomy destroys the potential for life; an
abortion destroys the reality.
The “silliness and hypocrisy of the hoops through which women wanting an
abortion must jump” subsists in the fact that almost all abortions are allowed
because of danger to mental health - but it’s precisely mental health which is
adversely affected by abortion.
Opposition to abortion is is grounded not on “a
religious perspective”, but on research like that published in the Australian
Journal of Psychiatry which shows abortion is associated with increased risk of
anxiety, alcohol and drug abuse and suicidal behaviours.
Common sense dictates also that abortion denies the basic human right to
life, and not only is abortion a terrible risk to women’s health, it also has a
terrible effect on the economy. An American study says abortion has cost the US
economy $15 trillion – the size of the national debt.
So abortion is not, as Klimenko claims, a woman’s “business alone”. It has to
be everybody’s business to try to avoid it.
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