Who is really sucked in?

THE EDITOR: Ms Dopwell is gracious in her appreciation of the intellectual gifts of ASPIRE members but expresses despair that we have allowed ourselves “to be sucked in by the International Planned Parenthood Federation, just to become an arm of that organisation.” (August 4). That is quite a charge. Frankly, I thought we had been sucked in by the reality of the thousands of abortions taking place under our noses and by the thousands who end up in our hospitals in need of care because of widespread, clandestine, unsafe practices.

I don’t suppose there is any prospect whatsoever that Ms Dopwell has been influenced by any agency external to Trinidad and Tobago? Like one of the world’s richest and most powerful multinational organisations, the Roman Catholic Church? Her moral standards and ethical precepts are undoubtedly all homegrown and Trini to the bone?

L DAVID
ASPIRE