Madam,

The report ‘Ceredigion has lowest abortion rate in Wales’ (Cambrian News, 5 July) calls for comment.

Whether one regards this as good or bad news, there is a crucial factor left unmentioned.

Imagine that all those abortions had never taken place.

Instead of each abortion a new person would have come into the world. Each day on this island around 600 human lives are lost daily to abortion, and since the 1967 Abortion Act over 9 million lives have perished, sobering facts indeed if rationally and objectively viewed; and it’s no use trying to shield ourselves from the grisly reality by pretending that the pre-born baby is not a person or not human, and therefore expendable, otherwise all of us treading this earth, having once been in the womb, are neither persons nor human.

The sensible and humane alternative is to encourage women with unwanted pregnancies to go ahead with their pregnancy, offering them help both before and after giving birth.

There are organisations that actually do this, e.g. the Good Counsel Network (tel. 020 7723 1740) or ARCH (tel. 0845 603 8501).

Apart from certain social attitudes and false philosophies, the main obstacle to this common sense approach is the highly lucrative abortion industry, which rakes in more than £100 million yearly (all paid for, incidentally, by the Government out of taxpayers’ money) and sees a pro-life stance as a threat to its interests.

Yours etc,

I Daniel, Waunfawr, Aberystwyth.

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