Equating abortion and Holocaust — let me tell you my story first

Some pro-life campaigners regularly compare the impact of abortion to the Holocaust. But is this a justifiable choice of simile or a deliberate distortion for other reasons? David Kernek offers a personal perspective.

My first meeting — in the generally accepted meaning of the word — with my mother was 45 or so years after I was born. As we got to know each other, I learnt about her childhood and teenage years in Austria. There was her first love affair.