At last night’s debate on the Abortion Legislation Bill Terry Bellamak of ALRANZ, who was unable to attend due to personal health reasons, left Gina Sunderland of March for Life NZ unopposed.
So there was no debate. And neither should there be any debate. Leaving aside the fact that the unborn baby is human, with exactly the same right to life as its mother, this Abortion Legislation Bill allows for abortions, no questions asked, up till 20 weeks’ gestation.
Science now proves another fact: the baby feels pain at 20 weeks, some experts say 8 weeks.
The debate should end right there. New Zealand prides itself on being a humane society. In every abortion (13000 last year) a baby is killed by being pulled apart, limb from limb, in its mother’s womb, with her consent.
These babies are being sacrificed, exactly as babies were sacrificed in primitive societies to appease the gods, on the altar of ‘choice’. Women – and men - have a choice already, and that choice should be exercised not after conception, but before.
The inevitable unwanted pregnancy often becomes a wanted baby. If not, there are childless couples so desperate to adopt, they advertise on Facebook.
Let’s please not kill babies. Kill this Bill.
I agree with you Julia, kill the bill.
ReplyDeleteThe political realm is about justice. True justice does not condemn the innocent and, accordingly, politics has no business writing laws that do.