Letters to the editor - December 12, 2022

Clear and present danger

The present campaign to depict the amendment being debated in parliament – to give the final word to both doctors and women whose pregnancies become a very serious threat to their health and life – as opening the road to “abortion-on-demand” reminds me of the campaign against the introduction of divorce. Many of the present campaigners were crusaders against divorce then.

Today, they never utter a single word about divorce, knowing that their doomsday predictions regarding marriage have not happened. The same will happen this time.

Today’s campaigners are focusing their objection on the fact that even the very real threat to the “health” of the pregnant woman could qualify her for termination of the pregnancy “on demand”.

What if the pregnant woman happens to be your wife, daughter? Photo: Shutterstock.com

What if the real, very serious threat to the pregnant woman’s health, if not death, is that if the pregnancy is not terminated she may probably suffer both physical and/or mental permanent disability?

May I ask each one of the campaigners, none excluded, to answer this simple question with hand on heart: What if the pregnant woman who finds herself in...