The Editor, Sir:

Contrary to Elaine M. Campbell, one cannot be both 'against abortion' and against 'pro-life believers' at the same time. Clearly, Campbell supports abortion. This is because she claims that women can "exercise their right of autonomy in deciding what is best for themselves and their future". This, of course, is nonsense since no one, in any country, has the right to disobey the law and do as he or she pleases in order to better his or her future. A person betters his or her future as well as the future of society by being responsible for his or her actions.

Campbell speaks of the woman's 'autonomy' but forgets that the child in the womb also has the right to be born and grow up making his or her own decisions. What about the child's autonomy? All the wealth and future enjoyment women may think they get from murdering their children through abortion is simply an illusion.

Depression

Most women end up severely depressed and even suicidal once their conscience catches up with them in later years. They begin to think what the child would have looked like or how they might have enjoyed his or her company. They realise too late that no amount of money or material gain can replace even one beautiful human being. Everyone is equally precious in the eyes of God.

Campbell suggests that the nuclear family should be the norm because of past propaganda by pro-abortionists aimed at reducing population growth. There are no statistics, however, indicating that the world is being overpopulated. This was merely a ploy by anti-life groups to legalise abortion.

Fifty years ago it was common for women to have nine or 10 children. These families survived and prospered, despite the hard times, because they were nurtured not on money and material things but on love.

At the root of all abortions is pure selfishness. Women may disguise this to justify their crime but God who sees all knows differently. My heart cries every time a child is aborted. I am glad that Elaine M. Campbell made the right choice and kept her baby. May all mothers do the same. I plead with Jamaicans not to legalise the evil of abortion for any reason whatsoever.

I am, etc.,

ANHTONY WILSON

anthony_will_wilson@hotmail