Work for abortion fanatics

THE EDITOR: Why is that pro-choice people try to give the impression that it is only the Catholic Church that is against abortion? If one checks with the Inter-Religious Organisation, anyone can come to realise that most religious organisations: Anglicans, Muslims, Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecostals, Evangelicals, etc, all consider abortion a dastardly act against life.

True, the Catholic Church is in the forefront of the opposition to abortion and thank God for that. Ms Denise Johnson in her letter published May 14 boasts that the Parliaments of Colombia and Uruguay, even though their respective Catholic populations are 90 percent and 60 percent, have removed abortion from their criminal laws and suggests that because the Trinidad and Tobago Catholic population is less than 30 percent, our Government should do the same.

History is replete with examples where a small group of very active persons can influence and control whole nations by clandestine manoeuvers, while the silent majority remains silent. It has been said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” We only have to look at Nazi Germany, Baghdad, Iran, Zimbabwe, etc to see where small interest groups have controlled whole nations by draconian legislation.

My view of what has happened in Colombia and Uruguay is that a small group of pro-choice persons have been successful in having laws changed while the silent majority either did not know what was happening or remained silent. In fact I am certain that if a referendum is held in those countries, and in Trinidad and Tobago, the result will be a resounding no against the decriminalisation of abortion. People of Trinidad and Tobago, we must not remain silent and let only a few fanatics foist on us what they think is right. We must let our government know that abortion kills our babies and that it is a criminal act.

JOHN MACKAY
Federation Park