Letter to the Editor

I woke up this morning and read the national post. I found Jonathan Kay's article and realised he was the guy sitting in front of me at the symposium celebrating all things Morgentaler! I decided to write him a nice letter. Will post if he replies. Man, if only I could make my living out of doing stuff like this. Any ideas? Maybe I can find someone to sponsor this sort of effort. In the meantime, my ideas remain, and I'm still forced to be practical.

anyway so I wrote:



Dear Mr. Kay,

I was at the same Morgentaler conference ( I even sat behind you! Hi...), and the reason the pro-lifers stayed silent (although I feel the fact that we refrained from much of the applause, never mind the standing ovation twice over to Morgentaler himself made us fairly obvious) was that we respected that it was a prep rally. Our goal was to learn and to ask questions either individually to different members of the Abortion industry or in the open forum after each lecture.

There was definitely a silent wall in the room concerning anything regarding the humanity of the unborn. I noticed in your article you characterised the fetus (as you may know, in latin meaning small one) as a clump of cells, in the first trimester, and therefore it was a woman's right. The American Medical Association (AMA) declared as far back as 1857 (note. it was referenced in the Roe.v.Wade opinion) that "the independent and actual existence of the child before birth, as a living being" is a matter of objective science. Doctors knew it during the 1800s and doctors know it now. Human life begins at conception.

Furthermore. If abortion is done to fetuses at first trimester, why should it make any difference or surprise you that it is done in the second and the third? The morality of the issue does not change despite technological advances, the fetus, given time, will develop to become what it always had potential to be. We move from fetus to baby, to toddler, to child, to teenager, to adult. At conception we receive a set of unique DNA which defines our personhood. If abortion is wrong at any point, it should not be considered right at any point. Time is an arbitrary marker making little difference to the issue.

Thank you for your time.



President, University of Toronto Students for Life 2007-2008

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