Letter to the editor: Abortion, convenience and reality

The extraordinary fate of being able to bear children, to sustain the human race, falls to women. How significant is this? How significant is a human life, the human race? With this fate comes responsibility, a moral obligation unlike any other.

As long as pregnancy imposes impediments to a woman’s pursuit of happiness, she bears an unequal burden. This is why the cool people have insisted on the unintuitive and, frankly, sick position that we have no moral obligation to unborn children. Moreover, in order to complete the liberation of women they also hold that the termination of a pregnancy must be guilt free and, in fact, laudable. This is why progressives have such ghoulish enthusiasm for abortion. Their quest for women’s equality requires it.

What is the exact moral status of the unborn child at any particular stage of development? I don’t know, but we all know that it is never nil. Thus the view that every abortion is morally blameless and immune to legislative sanction is certainly wrong.

Reality is a stubborn thing; it cares little for our convenience.

Arthur Moeller

New Forence