Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I just do not approve of infanticide Keith.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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While I am not in favour of abortions, I am in favour of women having the right to choose what happens to their own bodies. There are no black and white lines in such decisions as factors change from person to person and from pregnancy to pregnancy. Medical advice alone is often far from sufficient and would appear to have an economic rather than a health bias.
When my own daughter was diagnosed as Down Syndrome the doctor had all the paperwork ready for termination and had to go and find other information when we told her that we were not even considering that option. The same doctor later came up with the same first option when she, incorrectly as it turned out, diagnosed inoperable heart problems.
For these and other reasons I do feel that independent counselling and advice does need to be available and away from the medical professionals. However, it should also be well away from religious groups as well. If a woman wants advice from from a practitioner of whatever faith she follows she can (or certainly should be able to) get it from her church, temple, mosque or whatever. The current proposals, which will see the whole system handed over to religious groups, could well lead to a situation where contraceptive advice gets harder to come by for those who most need it and then pregnancy counselling given by those who, on religious grounds, oppose contraception and termination.
Termination should never be over easy to access but it should also never be confined to a narrow, or narrow minded, set of parameters.
Assisted suicide is another question altogether, despite spurious attempts here to link the two. Any thought of handing over the right of life and death to political and legal forces is a step towards the final destruction of any illusion of a free society we still have.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
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CHRIS P
I'v just taken another pill, as i find myself agreeing with you again!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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I think one should ask the unborn baby if it wants to be aborted; it would probably say no!