Letters

Victory?

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One of the great positives of recent times has been the long overdue move towards much-needed and deserved women's rights, particularly in the work place.

Unfortunately, as with so many human issues, some take things to extreme.

Leading Australian Catholic abortion/pro-life counsellor, Anne Lastman, in her Australia-wide periodical, has correctly castigated the "champagne-toasting extremist feminist politicians celebrating their 'victory of sorts'."

These women appear totally ignorant of the fact that they have just authorised a new and deadly way of killing new life in their mothers wombs, with the possibilitity of some mothers suffering life- threatening after-effects.

So how can this be seen as a "victory". And for whom? What a sad situation indeed.

Sadly, it seems that the new "poorest of the poor" is to be found in the womb.

ERROL DUKE
Elizabeth East, SA

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 19 No 5 (June 2006), p. 15