THE abortion front line is not the abortion clinic – it is the organisations that offer post-abortion counselling (On the abortion front line, News Review, last week).

Like most educated, modern young women, I had believed that abortion was a right that should be freely and safely available. This is why, when I fell pregnant, and my partner did not want to be a father, I aborted my baby. I thought it would not be a big deal – it was an easy solution. It has been anything but.

Five years later, not a day passes that I do not regret my decision. The gut-wrenching guilt and the anger at those who played a role in the event, have only worsened over time – especially after the birth of my first child.

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UNSPOKEN RISKS: Women may well say thank you to the surgeon but are they so thankful the next morning, in a month or a year’s time – or even 20 years later?

Those who perform abortions do women a great disservice when they fail to inform them that they may never conceive again and that they could well experience the effects of the now widely accepted post abortion syndrome.

I meet many such women in my crisis pregnancy centre.

Christine Roseblade
Nottingham

DEFENDING THE UNBORN: In Wilberforce’s day, defenders of the slave trade alleged that the British economy would collapse if it were ended.

In 1967, the fear of the “population bomb” persuaded many to accept the Abortion Act. Today, even with global warming to worry us, the realisation that we are attacking the unborn on a massive scale makes people uneasy.

Those who believe in the value of all human life are called many names, as Wilberforce was; “ghoulish” is new. But pretending that killing is curing is only effective for a limited time.

Dr Mary Knowles
Chair, Doctors who Respect Human Life
London SW3

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