While I concur that males who impregnate girls should be held accountable for their actions, it seems Dot Cleminshaw (Letters, March 8) thinks that the authorities should let the young woman who aborted her baby alone. After all, that is what the morning-after pill achieves DIY abortion.
Why worry about the death of a baby when thousands are murdered legally by abortion on demand? After all, they’re just blobs of foetal tissue, not real human beings. Why worry about the babies who’re abused and raped? They’re just more developed conglomerations of tissue who’re probably going to die of Aids anyway.
And why bother with administering anti-retrovirals to HIV-positive mothers and their babies? They should just have had legal abortions much easier and cheaper than raising thousands of orphans.
In South Africa life is cheap except for the murderers and rapists whose right to life is protected by law.
Forget about old-fashioned ideas like standards of right and wrong. Political correctness is more important, and moral relativism is far more convenient and expedient.
Look how political correctness has benefited our nation since 1994: it has helped marriages become stronger, children are safe from abuse; drug abuse and sexual promiscuity are on the wane, while crime has dropped radically with our more humane justice system and Bill of Rights. Oh what a paradise we live in! Where does the madness stop? Eleanor Poulter