Our voices are not heard by our hearts
The fundamental nature of every person is to have the freedom to make choices. In human commerce we are all free to make choices, but we are not free to choose the consequences, which have to be accepted.
The crusaders for ‘free choice’ say nothing about the life-long emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual consequences of the killing of human life. Even if we can reason to abortion, we can’t reason with emotions. The human voice is not heard by the human heart.
Legislation will not bring closure to the complexity of feelings experienced when a life is deliberately terminated. In a multi-cultured society, abortion ushers in a ‘democratic culture’ in which moral values based on ‘faith’ in a supreme being are cast aside in favour of ‘reason.’
Euthanasia will seem reasonably justified for those in nursing homes who are not going to get better or ‘have no quality of life.’
Considering the soaring costs of institutional and custodial care, the infirm and criminals will experience less and less of the ‘milk of human kindness.’ There is much more to abortion than the killing of a foetus of an unborn baby.
Edward Foster
Crosshaven
Co Cork
