Anti-choice visitors are anti-everything

THE EDITOR: The anti-choice community must be really scared of ASPIRE’s call for a review of our archaic abortion law.

For the second time within a year, the Emmanuel Community is again hosting one of the world’s richest and most conservative anti-choice organisations. It has attracted no less than its heavyweights, the President and an Associate Director. These visitors are making precisely the sort of outlandish statements that should infuriate our citizens and advance ASPIRE’s evidence-based case. They are anti-contraception, anti-condom, anti-birth control and anti-choice (Jacinth John, Newsday 21 p 31).

By contrast, we are pro-choice, pro-birth control, pro-condom, pro-contraception and pro-life. We do not separate the dignity of women from women’s capacity to make responsible choices — whether of pregnancy, abstinence, contraception or abortion. We hope the media give our North American visitors a lot more coverage so they can continue to discredit and marginalise themselves. We welcome them to Carnival — but they are probably anti-that too!

NICOLE  ADAMSON
Charlotteville, Tobago