Feels Pro-Life Spirit Should Last All Year Long                                   

Monday January 15th, 2007
Letters Editor
Daily Gleaner

How wonderful no babies were aborted in New Brunswick over the Christmas holidays. If only
the pro-child spirit of Christmas could continue year-round. What a blessing it would be.

Unfortunately, the spirit of Herod, who killed the babes of Bethlehem as he sought to eliminate
the Christ child, is still with us.

We hear it in complaints that women could not abort over Christmas. We hear it in clamour about
 "access" to taking unborn life being restricted in our province.

Why is it that some people lack compassion for the most innocent of children - those in a mother's
womb - and instead promote what is so evil, so heinous? Is this not what the Bible calls hardness
of heart?

Pro-choice advocates deride New Brunswick's restrictions as being old-fashioned.

If respecting life and maternity are old-fashioned, so be it.

In reality, our province's restrictive abortion policy is more forward-looking than its critics realize.

First, the policy is consistent with contemporary embryology, which has entirely removed past
doubts about the humanity of the unborn.

Second, it reflects reams of scientific studies which have similarly removed doubts about whether
 abortion harms women's health. Abortion is not safe.

A third way New Brunswick's policy is progressive is in its demographic soundness. The last thing
our aging and dwindling population needs is fewer babies as the result of abortion on demand.

Let's keep the brakes on killing the unborn. Better still, let's keep the Christmas spirit going year
round. It's time for a public policy that welcomes every child, born or unborn.

Jill Kruse

New Maryland, N.B.