Monday, 16 April 2018

THE WORST CODE OF SILENCE (Letter to Dom Post, April 16)



Let’s talk about “the so-called code of silence at play to try to cover up the crime”, not of killing Chozyn (A homegrown epidemic, April 16), but the crime of abortion.

Could we please get honest about domestic violence? Could we please recognise that it’s the violence of women towards their own children in utero which causes violence against women – usually by their partners, note, not husbands. It can’t be proven, but it’s true that those who live by the sword die by the sword.

Futile words are expended by people who have power to stop the violence but are paralysed by their own experience of abortion/s, or their best friend’s or their daughter’s or granddaughter’s.

Women are both “victims and users of violence” and the help they need isn’t blah blah blah, it’s encouragement to adopt and if when the baby’s in her mother’s arms she can’t surrender it, she needs employment for her child’s father, to learn baby care and be supplied with baby gear.

There is “a quick fix”; it’s an end to abortion. But given our prevalent attitude of wilful blindness, I’m not going to bate my breath.


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