ASPIRE’S aim is population control

THE EDITOR: I write in reply to a letter from M Squires-Hospedales of St Joseph Village which appeared in the press on September 1, 2003. Squires-Hospedales takes up the cudgel on behalf of “ASPIRE” and all those whose first claim had been “pro choice” until the Prime Minister, the Hon Patrick Manning, said he was “pro life”. ASPIRE may now hurriedly stick the label “pro life” on itself to camouflage its true intent. But everyone knows that its ultimate design is population control. The Prime Minister’s declaration is an indication of his conviction that the unborn child should have the protection of the law in accord with the UN Charter defining the Rights of the Child. The unborn foetus in the mother’s womb is defined as a “child” by the United Nations. ASPIRE disagrees!

If ASPIRE is not advocating abortion, then just what is its goal? The protection of poor women? That is but another masquerade to hide their real intent and purpose. There are better ways, Squires-Hospedales, than foeticide! ASPIRE would have us believe they are “pro family” but encourage a mother, because of her economic need or personal health concern, to kill her unborn child. My reference to Learie Constantine’s statement about population control of Blacks by Whites touched a raw nerve in Squires-Hospedales, advocate for the cause of ASPIRE. The original banner under which ASPIRE appeared on the local scene was “pro choice.” Whose choice? Do they give the unborn child a choice — whether it wants to continue to live or chooses to be brutally killed and untimely ripped from its mother’s womb in bits and pieces?

Or to have its head emerge from the mother’s womb, the spinal column punctured and its brain sucked out, in order to comply with the legal requirement that the living, fully emerged child may not be killed? You hold that it is all right to kill the partly emerging child? In this there is neither logic nor morality. You, Squires-Hospedales, and your friends in ASPIRE may think what is killed is not a child but a ‘thing,’ a fish, or a zygote! You are wrong! It is not “poor women” who can afford the ‘luxury’ of killing their child in this manner, or ‘salted’ in the womb and turned into a dead, blackened corpse. I dare ASPIRE and its advocates to spend some of their funding to televise the documentary The Silent Scream. Let them prove they are really “pro life.” Let the ugly truth about abortion and the awareness of the unborn child, recoiling from the inserted instruments of death which seek to tear it to bits and terminate its life, be exposed to public scrutiny. Abortion is an abomination. It lays desolate a gift from God, a gift beyond price to a woman. Let it be seen what is the choice ASPIRE would offer pregnant mothers in our country! Shades of Herod!

Do not preach to me about what they do in Canada, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark, or in the USA or the UK. Shall we follow in the tracks of countries which legalise same sex marriage, which legalise the use of cannabis, countries which sell weapons of destruction to Third World countries to make internecine war so that the winner can sell cheaply the natural resources of the country to those who incite wars and sell them arms? They who cannot think for themselves slavishly follow the ways of so-called “developed countries.” I am no agent, propagator or facilitator for any foreign ideas or plans for population control or for the murder of unborn children. Herod is being made to look like a saint by ASPIRE’s design. Morality enshrines a higher law than man-made laws. The UN Charter which embodies universally accepted truths and guidelines, asserts that from the moment of conception until the age of legal majority, what is conceived is a child — NOT a thing, a fish or a zygote, thereby debunking the myth which ASPIRE aspires to promulgate.

I am not guided by man-made laws which are often based on expediency, may be influenced by lobbies and pressure groups or party financiers. I speak or write guided purely by my conscience and my sense of morality. I speak from personal experience — (one who has been blessed with seven children (now six). My children have been brought up always to stand up for truth and justice, guided always by the immortal words of Rabindranath Tagore: “Give me the strength never to abandon the poor or bend the knee before insolent might.” We have a duty to protect all unborn children.

BALGOBIN RAMDEEN
Attorney-at-Law