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Abortion points are off message
• I AM sorry for Rosemary Hicks and her misguided support for MP Frank Dobson’s views in not lowering the time-limit for late abortions which remain free and accessible any time up to and including 24 weeks (Letters, July 17).
She claims that young women still face “unnecessary barriers”, “obstruction from anti-abortion GPs” and a “postcode lottery in NHS provision”.
This is Camden.
This is London.
The choice for abortions are endless. Perhaps it might be tricky to find access if you live in a remote rural area on a small offshore island, but not here.
The sexualisation of teenagers and children is obvious to see.
Views such as Ms Hicks’s can be taken by young readers to be a healthy option at any time up to a 24-week later abortion. That is the wrong message to state, in a well-read newspaper such as the New Journal.
To any young readers – it is not always safe. Complications can and do occur, post-abortion, including infertility or worse.
Family planning centres are also easily accessible so get the right contraception for you to try to avoid what can often be a very difficult experience which leaves some women distressed for years after.
L GRAY
Belsize Park, NW3
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Your comments:
Why do people such as L Gray still believe that 'more contraception means fewer abortions'?
Experience should have taught us by now that the exact opposite is true.
Many years ago Mrs Victoria Gillick was pilloried when she warned that making access to contraception more freely available would only lead to MORE abortions, rather than less. But how right she was.
As for those poor women who 'fall' pregnant, I would suggest that they fell BEFORE they got pregnant. Nobody ever got pregnant from washing their car.....
It should be pointed out here that many so-called 'contraceptives' do not prevent conception, but actually procure an early ABORTION. The IUD and the 'morning after' pill are both abortifacient - and how many women are ever told by their 'family planning' clinic that the low-dose birth prevention pill actually causes them to abort a new and unique human life at least once or twice every year?
Sincerely,
Patrick McKay. |
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