Unborn on death row

I never cease to be amazed and saddened at the triviality with which some these days seem to treat human life – their own “species” as they are often wont to say.

If we fail to defend our own kind from the start of life... what hope is there for mankind?- Gerie Cowie, London, UK

The arbitrary way in which decisions are made as to when human life begins is also of concern. Life has to begin at the moment of conception. It seems logical to me that the beginning is the beginning, whether or not one has a healthy respect for that life. The decision not to allow that human being with potential to develop within the safety of the womb is misguided, rather the unborn human being is seen as a potential human rather than a real one.

Denigrating the human embryo in a way demeaning to humanity, calling it a meaningless ball of cells, attempts to deny its true humanity.

It then becomes convenient for disposal if people can be persuaded that it is not yet human – just another cheapened commodity.

The fact that people seek to defend human life means that we face various nonsensical accusations, one of the most common of which is that only religious people respect life.

This is poor spin indeed. And of course it is a total insult to the many millions of people with no religion who still value human life.

Those who comment against life seem to conveniently forget that they are alive today because their own parents chose life. Yet they are still happy to arbitrarily declare the lives of others as being valueless, meaningless and unreal.

If we fail to defend our own kind from the start of life, remembering how vulnerable the unborn are, particularly when developing within the safety of the womb, what hope is there for mankind?

I would say that those who either promote, encourage or support abortion, are acting as judge and jury to the baby in the womb, and that womb becomes a condemned cell in a human death row.

They are seduced by the pro-abortion movement’s persuasive arguments, often based on an anti-religious stance instead of a pro-human one.

The defenceless and downtrodden have always needed the protection of other people. Who will stand up for the unborn?