A Blot on Our Humanity: Slaughter of the Innocents
Columnist. Gordon Campbell, wrote (The Wellingtonian, March 23, 2017):
“If the political will existed [in New Zealand] change could proceed in two stages. Abortion could be removed from the Crimes Act where it (oddly) sits at present and be placed under the Health Act, as a procedure between women and their medical practitioners.”
No, Mr Campbell, the status quo is not odd. Even the permissive Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act, in its long title, provides for “having full regard to the rights of the unborn child”.
A human dies whenever an abortion is performed.
Scientifically, there is not some sort of developmental stage whereby the unborn child is less than human. Even when the unborn’s capacities are not yet fully developed, they are still present. The unborn child is as much a person as the born child, and has inalienable human rights, including the right to live.
So, Mr Campbell, every abortion that is not sanctioned by law is a crime, and should remain one under the Crimes Act, if only to remind us that the rights of an unborn child, in a legal abortion, are being sacrificed by society for the sake of its mother.
The fact that polls in New Zealand suggest there is overwhelming support for legal abortion on permissive grounds will never change the human cost of that sacrifice.
The majority view is a blot on our humanity. We sanction killing our own children, putting women’s wants and needs first. Out of sight, out of mind, when it comes to the unborn.
“If the political will existed [in New Zealand] change could proceed in two stages. Abortion could be removed from the Crimes Act where it (oddly) sits at present and be placed under the Health Act, as a procedure between women and their medical practitioners.”
No, Mr Campbell, the status quo is not odd. Even the permissive Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Act, in its long title, provides for “having full regard to the rights of the unborn child”.
A human dies whenever an abortion is performed.
Scientifically, there is not some sort of developmental stage whereby the unborn child is less than human. Even when the unborn’s capacities are not yet fully developed, they are still present. The unborn child is as much a person as the born child, and has inalienable human rights, including the right to live.
So, Mr Campbell, every abortion that is not sanctioned by law is a crime, and should remain one under the Crimes Act, if only to remind us that the rights of an unborn child, in a legal abortion, are being sacrificed by society for the sake of its mother.
The fact that polls in New Zealand suggest there is overwhelming support for legal abortion on permissive grounds will never change the human cost of that sacrifice.
The majority view is a blot on our humanity. We sanction killing our own children, putting women’s wants and needs first. Out of sight, out of mind, when it comes to the unborn.
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