I agree with Dave Armstrong (March 20) that Jumping through abortion
hoops is sheer hypocrisy. The hypocrisy lies in the fiction
maintained by the Abortion Supervisory Committee in allowing almost all
abortions on the grounds of mental health.
A meta-analysis published in 2011 in the British Journal of Psychiatry revealed that 81% of women who had an abortion increased their risk for depression, alcohol abuse and suicidal behaviours, and 10% of all mental health problems are directly attributable to abortion. What’s really “spurious” about granting abortions on the grounds of mental health is that abortion is in fact an inducement to mental illness.
Armstrong fishes up the red herring of religion, saying that in 1977 “the
pro-life faction included many religious figures”. The Society for the
Protection of the Unborn Child was led by Professor Sir William Liley, known
internationally as “the father of fetology” whose expertise could never be
matched by Armstrong’s “health professionals”.
Liley was an agnostic whose opposition to abortion was based on science.
Tragically - and in view of our government’s legalisation of abortion,
unsurprisingly - in 1983 when Sir William took his own life, New Zealand and the
world lost a giant of scientific endeavour.
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