Please let us not kill off the innocent

THE EDITOR: When abortion was legalised in the United States in the seventies, three points of reason were that unwanted pregnancies and death due to abortion would decline and it would improve the standard of living.

What we have seen in America is that the legalisation of abortion struck at the heart of the people. Everything increased negatively: teenage pregnancies, divorces, death by abortion (now legal); breaking up of relationships, couples, parent/child; violence etc. Abortion has been with us for thousands of years and will continue to be; so has been murder and rape, legalising it will simply encourage people who consider themselves law-abiding to now go ahead and do it. We have already sunk into degradation with violence and crime. Please do not let us include on our list the killing of the innocent.

T HUTCHEON
Blue Range