Abortion - less emotion, more reason
Published:Monday | May 28, 2018 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
Clinton Chisholm's article, 'Justifying abortion', in The Sunday Gleaner of May 27, 2018, is one of the most neutral and emotionally detached commentaries on the topic I've seen for a while.
But, unfortunately, whatever reasoning that can be mounted against the negatives of an abortion will swiftly be neutralised or overcome by anyone bent on having it done. People who are pulled into abortion discussions think with emotion and not with reason.
The innocent unborn will, in most cases, always get short-changed in favour of the older, external, visible human being. The value of a foetus is circumstantial - its value is dependent on how its carrier feels about it. There will be no objective value until perhaps years after having it done and reality starts setting in, making the abortion of a future man or woman as serious a guilt as ending any human life.
HOMER SYLVESTER