“One of the biggest drivers of the prison
population,” posits Kelvin Davis, Minister of Sunshine (November 25)
“is violence”. Well yes, Kelvin, we read on that on the previous page: 21 per
cent of prisoners are violent.
“What are the drivers of violence?” Kelvin
asks. “Is it lack of money, having no hope, or despair?” Well no, Kelvin, it’s
more basic than that. Lacking money doesn’t make a man violent, and neither does
hopelessness or despair.
Violence is a behaviour which can be learned
in ways more subtle than example and demonstration, and more deadly. Abortion,
because it’s inflicted on the most helpless of victims, by the victim’s own
mother, is the ultimate violence. And
violent mothers make for violent sons - and daughters.
Those mothers might well be victims themselves,
of course – of poverty perhaps, or bullying by their partner or father, or ignorance - but
they're not helpless.
Pregnancy Help, St Vincent de Paul and Family
Life International are only three of the agencies which offer women help and
hope of an end to violence.
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