Some questions people ask about abortion

THE EDITOR: If a woman who is pregnant gets German measles and the baby is likely to be deformed or retarded. Is it right to have an abortion? The scriptures does not change just because a child might be born with a handicap. What about those who were not detected before birth? Shall we kill them after birth? What if a nine-year-old gets a disease that leaves him deformed? Shall we kill him?

If I had been raped and became pregnant, I would die at the thought of carrying a cruel stranger’s child, What should I do? Rape is wrong, abortion is wrong, two wrongs do not make a right. First of all it is a strange sort or justice to kill an innocent child for the crime of the father, two wrongs never make a right. One violent act does not condone another. Remember the child is half yours. If you were the product of a rape, what if your mother had aborted you?

Do unwanted children usually end up being battered and abused later in life? This is a false notion, recent studies show that out of 674 battered children, 91 percent were from planned pregnancies, nine percent were from illegitimate. It also shows since abortion was legalised, child abuse has risen. Isn’t legally preventing a woman from having an abortion an invasion of her privacy? Laws are very funny, they allow the police to enter the privacy of people’s home to stop them from battering and abusing their children and then use the same force of law to guarantee the privacy and right of parents to grind and melt their unborn babies. Physical evidence of life in the womb. Pictures taken by means of ultrasonic waves in-womb cameras and other medical devices show unborn babies sleeping or awake, smile, frown, grimace, hiccup, suck thumb, kick, inhale and exhale; unborns respond to voices or sounds.

Three weeks old — the heart pumps blood through its own blood stream. Five weeks old — nose, cheeks, and fingers are visible. Six weeks old — Nervous system begins to function and kidneys, stomach and liver start working. Seven weeks old — Brain waves are measurable. Ten weeks old — The fetus has basically everything found in newborns. Twelve weeks old — completely formed unique fingerprints will not change. According to the Bible abortion is murder and it must not be tolerated behind closed doors or street corners and alleys.

BISHOP KRISHNA BOODRAM
Debe, South Trinidad