Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abortion. Show all posts

Monday, January 23, 2012

A Woman's Right To Choose....Sometimes

A PHAGE reader is outraged:

What about baby?
LAST WEEK my wife saw a pregnant woman smoking outside the Royal Women's Hospital. If it is illegal to inflict cigarette smoke on people in bars and restaurants, then surely it should be illegal for a pregnant woman to inflict cigarette smoke on her unborn baby
David Wood, North Melbourne
No doubt Mr Wood's heart is in the right place, but one cannot help wondering if he was similarly peeved by the venerable Anne Summers' column on Sunday, the one in which she insisted no woman could be considered a feminist if she opposed abortion on demand.

According to a reader, the unborn need to be protected from irresponsible mothers. According to the columnist, the unborn are worth less than a mother's inconvenience.

The liberal mind really is a thing of wonder.