UWO's Blunder

It is telling that UWO is the only institution to ever honour Henry Morgentaler. I never thought I would agree with Bill Clinton but words back in 1996 on abortion is right when he said it should be safe, legal and rare. We have got the first two parts down but we need a lot of work to achieve the last part.

There is nothing honourable in abortion. With the state of medical science today when a women finds out she is pregnant the odds are she can carry to term and deliver a healthy baby. Even a woman living on the streets with a solvent sniffing abuse problem can deliver a baby. I dismiss the twisted logic the pro-choice side has to go through. There is no way around the fact that abortion is the killing of a human being. A potential human being to be sure. But as I said, the odds are that potential would be achieved if allowed to carry on normally.

Robin Manton in a letter in the June 15th London Free Press has some very good points. He/she is responding to a previous letter writer who defends Morgentaler by referring to a friend who had a back alley abortion in the '60's by pointing out it is 2005 and now the stigma of single parenthood is gone, sex ed is taught in public school, condoms are available in high schools, we have day care centers for unwed teens and desperate parents looking for babies to adopt. So having an abortion is really a sign today more of irresponsibility.

I felt I was in a time warp watching the feminist dinosaurs defending Morgentaler with their clotheshanger buttons and stale rhetoric. Yes they achieved the right of a woman to have an abortion. I agree it is her body and her decision. What does not change and will not change is that decision stops a human life from being born.