Abortion truth?

The cry 'A woman's right to choose!" is an effective slogan but it has never been a convincing one. It is even less convincing now that I have seen how the Pigeon Park abortion protest was conducted. There was a great deal of hysteria in the air and not much of the rationality upon which a choice should be based.

I previously accepted the fact that ignorance of many pro-abortionists in matters such as the nature of foetal life or the Church's historically consistent stand against abortion as being understandable lack of knowledge.

But after their ravings at now two rallies on the abortion issue I wonder how much regard the pro-abortion group has for the truth of the matter.

Certainly the American Supreme Court, in its decision on abortion, is a good example of bias and illogicality. Apparently relying on a single law review article the court concluded that abortion was never established as a common law crime. The court based its claim on the safety of abortion on six sources — all written by people who have been open advocates for abortion on demand. In considering viability Justice Blackmun cited for support a medical text which never mentioned the court's deinition of a 24 week viability. It is obvious that the supreme court also chose to ignore the consensus that foetal life is human life from fertilisation. Further, the court simply assumed, without analysis, that the abortion decision is to be part of the right to privacy.

In fact, the court's decision is unsupported in law and unexplained by any reasoning process, is blatant judicial legislation and is to be regretted from the standpoint of fairness, intellectual honesty, logic and judicial craftsmanship.

I think this disregard for truth is becoming more apparent in the pro-abortion camp in New Zealand also. This disregard for truth or for the pursuit of truth extends from the pulling down of posters around varsity to the prohibiting of anti-abortion material in the news media.