Skirting the issue, Professor

THE EDITOR: To coin a phrase, I was rather intrigued to read Professor Kenny’s reply “What evolutionary climax?” to the Reverend Father Farfan’s “A Biologist looks at Abortion.”

I have great respect for the erudite Professor and because of this, I am surprised at how he has skirted the real and main issue in Farfan’s letter. His technique is to confound the reader by clouding the issue with irrelevant facts. This, of course, is a well honed practice of the abortionist group, “Aspire.” In his rush to prove that the Reverend is an ignoramus, the Professor makes his meal of a slip of the pen by his opponent. This allows him to totally ignore the main issue in Father Farfan’s letter, which argues that the practice of abortion is dangerous to the human race. He rambles along on the correct application of an obscure (to most people), Latin word for the correct classification of even more obscure, (to most people), flora, or is it fauna.

In a parallel manner, I could match his approach and ramble along, discussing his ignorance of the English language because he does not know that Homo sapiens, the subject of a sentence, takes a singular verb. He then drags religion into a secular discussion and in this context mentions the stoning to death of women. Another smoke screen. Personally, I think that one stone to an adult human’s head to kill the person would be no more painful than hanging. It would surely be less painful to the recipient than the tearing to pieces of a baby in his mother’s womb or crushing his skull with a pair of pliers. Come Professor, shine your light on us and let us have your views on the point you missed in Fr Farfan’s letter. By the way, the Muslims who stone women to death, abhor the practice of abortion.

MATTHEW
MARTINEZ
Port-of-Spain