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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 16. 12th July 1973

Abortion Truth

Abortion Truth

Dear Sir,

Having taken part in the campaigns against the Vietnam War and more recently the Springbok Tour, we are very aware of situations which might violate human dignity and the respect for life. This is why abortion involves much heated debate. We cannot pass this matter over lightly, or avoid coming to the truth about it because it involves the same grave concerns as War or apartheid.

What we can't understand is the way the pro-abortionists disregard even the possibility of human life in the womb. If they do, they disregard the consequences of such life. But they never prove that there is no life there. They must know this to be impossible.

To come down to the facts again we see that the foetus's heart starts beating between the 18th and 25th day after conception. This is even before the woman realises that she is pregnant. The brain itself is completely present after the second month. At the third month the foetus sucks his/her thumb.

The mother docs not have the right to have an abortion for one's own rights must always stop short of violating another's basic right.

Yours

Janet Syans