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Abortion is another form of violence

May 03, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Queen Victoria would have wanted the men who were protesting against domestic violence to protest against the killing of innocent babies every single day as well through abortions. I make that statement in light of them shown in a photograph standing under the statue of the 19TH Century monarch in the SN.
While everyone seems to show discord with domestic abuse and rightly so, hardly anyone speaks out on the unlawful murdering of babies in their mother’s wombs through the hundreds and thousands of abortions that go on in our world every single day.

Statistics show that one baby is aborted every 24 seconds; 147 babies are aborted every hour; 3,542 babies are aborted every day; 24,865 babies are aborted every week; and 107, 750 babies are aborted every month!
The Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) is lauded for its efforts to raise awareness on this disease of domestic violence especially that against women, but they should also raise their voices against innocent human lives being snuffed out through clandestine and in some cases open medical procedures.
The sanctity of life of babies and women should go hand-in-hand, as one cannot take up a one-sided approach to the issue of violence against women without first airing their disgust about abortion.

Doesn’t the GRPA realise that killing babies is another form of violence? If they denounce violence against children in the form of Corporal Punishment in schools and in the home, then why don’t they do all what they can do to prevent violence from children beginning from their mother’s wombs?
No, but the GRPA along with its funding agencies and local as well as international supporters and donors continue to propagate the ‘death’ culture in this the age of contraceptives.
Abortions are carried out in almost every country in the world. Very rare are countries which completely prohibit abortions and those are the heavily Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Yemen, Oman.

A few African nations have also outlawed this horrible practice such as Madagascar, Niger, Somalia, Gobon, Central African Republic among a few others. Latin American and South American countries which do not allow abortions under any circumstance include: Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Peru, Chile, Paraguay and our neighbours Venezuela and Suriname.
Of course, many countries have shaped their laws to cater for abortions on persons who were raped. Other reasons for having the procedure in certain cases include maternal defects, mental defect and socio-economic factors.

Those are all very poor excuses for murdering children. If God didn’t want them to come into a world with the challenges and physical disabilities listed, then he would not have made them.
I think if a website was created where husbands and wives can log in, find people, and cheat on each other (www.ashleymadison.com), then we are quickly losing moral standards in our society — abortion is no exception.
Leon Jameson Suseran

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