MANDELAMANIA (Letter to Dom Post, Nov 10)

Reg Fowles (Letters, Nov 10) is a brave man, daring to swim against the current of Mandelamania and criticise Nelson Mandela for his leadership of the protest movement in South Africa. I’ll grab hold of his coat-tails and add that while achieving equality of life for millions of people, Mandela also denied life itself to millions more by legislating for abortion on demand. And it’s ironic that conservative politicians like John Key, Jim Bolger and Don McKinnon are lining up to pay tribute to a self-avowed ‘good Communist’ who himself paid tribute to Fidel Castro, Muammar Qaddafi and Yasser Arafat.

Julia du Fresne

 

WOMEN'S VIOLENCE AGAINST THEIR OWN CHILDREN, IN THEIR OWN WOMBS (Letter to Dom Post, Nov 28)

‘System fails to save woman’ says the sub-heading for your story Murder victim had protection order (Nov 28). The system fails to save women because it fails to save their unborn children. Men’s violence against women is ‘all the more tragic’, as Women’s Refuge’s Heather Henare says of this instance, because although almost always at least partly due to male duress, abortion is primarily a result of women’s violence against their own children, in their own womb.  

Julia du Fresne

 

ARE WOMEN'S PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS EVER VIOLENT?(Letter to Dom Post, Nov 25)

It’s tragic that any woman, let alone Dr Jackie Blue (Police can’t stop abuse alone, Nov 25), should suffer the way she has, but it’s hard to imagine such subverted passion and brutality being unleashed except by having sex. As surely every conceivable aspect of sexual relationships has by now been studied, surveyed, researched and reported, some earnest academic somewhere must have asked women in violent relationships whether or not that relationship was sexual or platonic, and I believe Dr Blue’s statement, ‘my boyfriend had moved in with me’, would supply the clue as to their answers. 

Julia du Fresne

 

INCONVENIENCE AND EXPENSE THE REASONS FOR ABORTIONS (Letter to Dom Post, Nov 19)

So ‘figures show that if teenage parents were well supported, and continued to achieve academically, the outcomes of their children were no different to children who didn’t grow up in poverty’ (Child abuse report urges sexual health services overhaul, Nov 19). Fancy that. Now we know that ‘mental health’ reasons for abortion are a sham and that with moral and financial support teenagers’ babies don’t suffer, what reasons can there be for New Zealand’s high rate of abortion? Inconvenience and expense, that’s what. 

Julia du Fresne

DR ROSY FENWICKE STICKS HER NECK OUT (Letter to Dom Post, Nov 22)

 

When Dr Rosy Fenwicke endorses ‘the social benefits of sound sex ed’ (Letters, Nov 22), she invites charges of financial self-interest. She’s a member of the Abortion Supervisory Committee, allowing thousands of abortions every year on the grounds of mental health which are now proven not to exist, and ‘having worked in reproductive and sexual health throughout (her) career’, she’s witnessed the rise and rise of teenage pregnancies and STDs accompanying the increasing promotion of sex education in schools. As a certifying consultant performing abortions at Wellington Hospital, she stands to profit from such promotion and its inevitable consequences. 

Julia du Fresne

THE ROOT OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (Letter to Central Hawke's Bay Mail, Nov 19)

 

 

I hate to say this, but the root of domestic violence is abortion (Riders coming to say it’s not OK, Nov 19). Violence against the human species is now experienced more in utero than any place else on earth, and the womb is our first home. You can’t get more domestic than that. 

Julia du Fresne

VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN LINKED TO VIOLENCE AGAINST THE UNBORN (Letter to Dom Post, Nov 15)

 

Catriona MacLennan is right to suggest (NZ dragging chain on reforming handling of sex abuse cases, Nov 15) that leading the world in lowest rape and sexual assault crime figures would be far more meaningful than winning the Rugby World Cup, or the America’s. But for that to happen New Zealand would first need to lead the world in the lowest abortion figures. Violence against women is linked psychologically and inevitably to violence against the unborn – and if anyone wants to deny that abortion is violence, I have the pictures to prove it.

 

Julia du Fresne