THE REASON WHY POLICE ARE STRUGGLING WITH FAMILY VIOLENCE (Letter to Dom Post, June 30)

Forgive me if I point out once again a truth that must be blindingly obvious to any rational thinker.

 

The reason why police are struggling as cases of family violence increase (June 30) is that probably one in three NZ women has undergone at least one abortion.  

When we sanction the violent deaths of thousands of children before birth at the wish of their own mothers we can only expect violence to permeate society, as it has. Hidden in the womb, those children might be out of sight, but for the sake of New Zealand’s future we can’t afford to keep them out of mind.

ABORTION IS 'TANTAMOUNT TO MURDER', TOO (Letter to Dom Post, June 20)

We’re all appalled by the street attack in London (Unborn baby targeted in horror street attack, June 19) on a woman’s unborn child. ‘It seems all the violence was targeted at the child. It is tantamount to murder,’ says Scotland Yard.  

But you have to wonder what’s the difference between an attack targeted at an unborn child in the street and an attack targeting an unborn child in an abortion clinic. This child was wanted and children in abortion clinics are not, but objectively speaking, attacks on the latter must logically also be called ‘tantamount to murder’.  

Only in an abortion clinic it’s supposed to be legal, so we can’t call it murder. But then, in abortion clinics the law is honoured in the breach rather than the observance.

 

Which means abortion is precisely ‘tantamount to murder and beyond the pale’.

 

WHY DIDN'T ANYONE ASK MATT VICKERS THE OBVIOUS QUESTION? (Letter to Dom Post, June 7)

I’m sorry, but I’m having trouble reconciling two statements by Matt Vickers (Isn't this my body? My life? June 6), whose wife Lecretia Seales died on Saturday of natural causes, frustrated in her wish for assisted suicide.  

Vickers stated that ‘there was no mistaking her response’, (to Justice Collins’ judgement). ‘She was hurt and disappointed’. Then in the next breath he says, ‘I am relieved that Lecretia was unconscious and unresponsive when we received it.’ 

A glaringly obvious question has gone unasked by any of the journalists present at that media conference. The fact that none commented on the inconsistency in Vickers’ script suggests they were all carried away by a tsunami of the sentimentality - not to mention blatant bias, as demonstrated in Tv One ’s ‘reportage’ that night - that has so far characterised the euthanasia debate in the media.

SANITY, NOT SENTIMENTALITY, IN THE EUTHANASIA DEBATE (Letter to Dom Post, May 27)

At last some sanity, as opposed to sentimentality, in the euthanasia debate (Court told Seales ‘can’t change law’, May 27). As Solicitor-General Michael Heron states, what Lecretia Seales is asking for is clearly either suicide or euthanasia.  

One would have thought Seales’ experience of failure to conceive with IVF might have taught her she is not the author of life. Neither is she the author of death.

THE DOM POST IS KOWTOWING TO 'THE RIGHT NOT TO BE OFFENDED' (Letter to Dom Post, May 20)

All children, says Jonathan Boston in reference to child poverty (How New Zealand can cut child poverty, May 19), should be able to participate fully in society.  

What about the children who can’t participate in society at all? Children who die every day in agony, ripped limb from limb before birth, in abortion facilities? Boston talks of strategies informed by ‘sound ethical principles’. A society which kills its most vulnerable citizens has no ethical principles and consequently no hope of real prosperity for children who survive the womb.

 

Boston wants ‘an integrated policy package’. How ‘integrated’ is policy which kills children before birth, then wants the best for them after birth? 

On the same page, under the headline Value of free speech immense, we read that our freedom to express ourselves is threatened by ‘a rising tide of offence-taking and indignation’. In persistently refusing to publish letters addressing the hypocrisy and double-speak around the issue of abortion, The Dominion Post is presumably kowtowing to what Joanna Norris of the NZ Media Freedom committee calls the argument that people have ‘the right not to be offended’. 

If that’s not the case, then you’ll publish this letter.

TEENAGERS NEED HELP BEFORE EXAMS, NOT DURING (Letter to Dom Post, April 13)

‘It has been revealed’, The Dominion Post says portentously (May 13), that ‘teenagers do not qualify for more time to sit exams if their ability is not what it should be’.  

Talk about shutting the door after the horse has bolted.  Next thing we know, the exams will be dumbed-down to suit their ability. If it’s not what it should be, clearly they need funding assistance to make it what it should be.

 

That is, they need assistance before the exams, not during.

MOTHERS FEED THEIR UNBORN WITH 'WOMB MILK' BEFORE THEY'RE ABORTED (Letter to Dom Post, April 8)

So ‘we’ll soon know how serious the Government is about looking after our most vulnerable children’ (Time for Nats to walk the talk on child poverty, May 8). Don’t make me laugh. Our most vulnerable children are the unborn.

 

And don’t try to tell me they’re not children. New research shows that during the first eleven weeks of life, before the umbilical cord develops, they’re fed by their mothers with secretions called ‘womb milk’, otherwise known as histiotrophe. But it’s while this is going on that they’re most likely to be killed by abortion.  

Unicef’s Deborah Morris-Travers asks for ‘a more inclusive approach to children’. That will be achieved only by allowing all children to live.