I SEE Marianne Taylor has joined the chorus of pro-abortion voices wishing to impose their view on Northern Ireland with her approval of last week's unconstitutional and disrespectful attempt by Westminster MPs to extend abortion to the Province ("The SNP is right to back abortion in Northern Ireland", The Herald July 15).
Unfortunately, Ms Taylor resorts to the usual pro-abortion tactic of creating semantic fog couched in the language of "choice" and "human rights". She describes the deliberate killing of a human being in the womb as "healthcare" and insists that women have the "right to choose...to continue a pregnancy". At no point does she actually mention anything about the child in the womb. We all know that when a woman is pregnant she is "with child" and we all know that abortion takes that child away. Sadly, pro-abortion advocates use dehumanising language in order to defend the indefensible – ie, killing a small, innocent and vulnerable human being in the womb.
Unsurprisingly, Ms Taylor blames resistance to abortion as part of a "patriarchal society" full of religious men telling women what to do with their bodies. Nothing could be further from the truth. The pro-life movement is mostly led by women and is comprised mostly of women who work tirelessly to highlight the humanity of the unborn child; the horror that abortion inflicts upon women; as well as helping women every day who are thinking about abortion or who have had an abortion. Women such as Bernadette Smyth, Lila Rose, Abby Johnson, Rebecca Kiessling, Gianna Jenssen, Laura Klassen and Obianuju Ekeocha are just some of the women doing all they can to help women and their unborn children.
Abortion is the greatest human rights violation of our time that has a serious physical and psychological impact on many women. I sincerely hope Ms Taylor will open her eyes to this and help women and their children, after all, both lives matter. Whilst the pro-life movement continues to build a culture of life, let us not forget the words of the abolitionist William Wilberforce who endeavoured to end another human rights abuse: "You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.”
Martin Conroy, Cockburnspath, Berwickshire.
MARIANNE Taylor should possibly have researched her article about abortion in Northern Ireland by asking some of the 100,000 people who have not been aborted since the introduction of the Abortion Act if they agree with her. I doubt they would.
Michael Watson, Glasgow G73.
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