No such thing as ‘safe abortion’

THE EDITOR: With reference to a letter from ASPIRE in Newsday, responding to my letter of July 12 detailing the death of a mother of three through abortion, it is interesting to note that they have not gotten the point — this was a medically approved planned parenthood clinic in which the “poor woman,” a mother of three met her death. It was no back street abortionist — Please!!!

I would repeat that there is no such thing as a “safe” abortion. The child in the womb always dies. The woman frequently suffers damage. The reality about “legal” abortions — and I quote from the article — “Abortion Related Maternal Morality: An In-Depth Analysis,” from New Perspectives on Human Abortion (published by Hyattsville, Md: University Publications of America): “With the introduction of abortion on demand, no significant change has been detected in the maternal mortality rate which could be attributed to legal abortion. “In analysing the trend in maternal deaths due to induced abortion, it has been shown that while maternal deaths stemming from criminal abortion appear to be decreasing, they have been replaced, almost one for one, by maternal deaths due to legal abortions. The results of this study indicate that there has been no significant impact on the relative frequency of abortion related maternal deaths due to induced abortion since the legalisation of abortion.”

There is a time in the history of a people when God places the burden of responsibility for action on the shoulders of its citizens. This is the time for Trinidadians and Tobagonians to choose. Every believer in the sanctity of human life has a duty to stand up and be counted, for should abortion be legalised in our land we will all be held accountable for condoning (even in silence) the murder of innocent babies. And to those who through misguided compassion (forget the unborn child) and fail to understand that the murder of even one innocent child through abortion brings about a cycle of violence, consider the fact that even as every year abortions increase in Trinidad and Tobago, so too there is a corresponding increase in violence, murders, kidnappings etc. Should we not ponder the words of that saintly woman, Mother Theresa who said: “Violence begins in the womb.”

MARIA ANNETTE
DOPWELL
Port-of-Spain