Some of the letters that Doris Anderson (pro-abortionist) did not print in the Toronto Star
Dear Mrs. Anderson,
I would like to respond to your request. What people think of abortion. To me it is a very simple issue. God creates life, God takes life. I’m sure you agree with me, if you read Ps. 139:13-16 in your Bible. Nothing more, nothing less.
Agnes Grissioen
Toronto
Dear Doris,
In response to your invitation, I must say, that I am pleased to have this opportunity to express my views on abortion.
To start with, I would like to tell you that I am very glad that I did not have an abortion twenty-eight years ago, as my doctor advised. The reason was – I’d had a mastectomy, which was followed by many treatments, which made me very ill, and then I became pregnant. My doctor was alarmed, because the state of my health, at the time could not have been worse. Then, too, I was past 40. He informed me that my chances of survival were nil, without that abortion. Yes, I wanted to live, and I would have followed his advice, but I was disturbed when he told me that I could not go to the hospital that I preferred. And when I found out that their reasons for disallowing abortions at their hospital, was their strict adherence to the Commandment of God – THOU SHALT NOT KILL! – that helped me, not only to understand, but to make my decision. So I chose not to kill our baby!
This was my most difficult pregnancy. I was still suffering from the effects of the treatments, and also a serious kidney condition. I was under constant doctor’s care. However, I and the baby survived. Our son, who was normal, only lived for ten hours. His lungs collapsed. With a lot of help from above, I made a complete and miraculous (according to the doctor) recovery, in a very short time.
Two years later, we were blessed with a beautiful daughter. When she was two and a half years old, we lost our thirteen year old daughter. Grief-stricken as I was at the time, it was at this moment that the realization of what would have happened if I had had that abortion, dawned on me. I knew for a certainty, that I would have become a hopeless and a total mental wreck. This realization brought with it much consolation, and more importantly – peace of mind.
What is puzzling and troubling me now – is why was the amendment to the criminal code passed in 1969? That amendment stated that an abortion could be performed only if the mother’s life or health was in danger. Why was this amendment necessary, when the doctors always had that right? How does one account for over a million babies being aborted since 1969? And worse still, that the abortions continue to increase, and in some hospitals outnumber the births? Has pregnancy become a disease that only an abortion can cure?
I am becoming more and more distressed and frightened at the horrors that are taking place, and I wonder, and I shudder, and I ask – will retribution be far behind???
Sincerely,
Pauline Fedor
Dear Ms Anderson,
What do Canadians think about abortion you ask? I was curious too and I sat in on several meetings of CARAL (Canadian Abortion Rights Action League). They confessed that in order to get their goal of free abortion on demand they must paint a “global picture of birth control, bringing in the third world overpopulation, food and environmental problems in that area, etc.” If this seemed dishonest and irrational to a listener, it was only the beginning. The speaker held up a large flash card of an acorn asking, “Is this an oak tree?” The acorn metaphor suggests that an acorn has no value since it is not yet an oak tree, hence a fetus has no value because it is not yet an adult. I was becoming confused. To round out my education of the pro-abortion mob I was told that, “The ideal contraception is a barrier method (IUD, cap, foam etc.) with abortion back-up. This information was issued with a warning-they realized that it is an attitude that might be shocking in its callousness. It was. They suggested that their members not publicly announce this piece of information lightly. Pro-abortion propaganda, including yours Ms. Anderson, eschews compassion and caring for women carrying babies they don’t want. There was a resounding lack of compassion from CARAL and a hefty dose of deathly hostility against both pro-lifers and unborn babies. I left feeling sick.
Still curious and, I like to think, open-minded, I went to a meeting of the International Socialists who were speaking on abortion. Quite a different kettle of fish from CARAL. Here, there was no pretence that in order to preserve a convenient lifestyle, you must rationalize abortion as being ‘necessary for global survival,’ as CARAL suggests. The ISA openly said that “abortion is killing, unfortunately.” Brutal, yet honest. They maintain that free abortion on demand is the rights of the poor and helpless and that they (the ISA) must lobby the grass roots, labour unions etc., to browbeat the government into their way of thinking.
In my travels I did learn something then. Something which historians and philosophers have been telling ad infinitum: that there is nothing new under the sun; CARAL are just the reiteration of the fact that those with a vested interest will be endlessly violently energetic in achieving their goals – their amorality is more chilling by far than their pro-abortion counterparts in the ISA; there we find once more the fanatic to whom the means justifies the end, idealistic but just as deadly.
The very obsession of these two groups excludes them from the mainstream of society. They do not represent the majority – their numbers show that clearly enough. And so you see, Ms. Anderson, no amount of polling is ever going to tell it like it really is. The many responses you will receive which advocate the killing of unborn babies will be from members of these two and other associated groups. Vocal, visible but few. Because what most Canadians know, in their hearts, is that abortion is killing and that killing is wrong. Women are not wombs to be de-activated, babies cannot be pawns in a society drugged on self-indulgence. Do you really think that Canadians don’t know that. Poll away, till you’re blue in the face. Numbers are numbers are numbers. The day that Canadians are asked if they believe in killing babies (which is certainly not what you ask although it is what you mean) and answer affirmatively is the day we had better all pack our bags and leave – the sky will be falling.
Sincerely,
Maureen O’Hara
Toronto
Ms. Anderson,
In answer to your questions in the Toronto Star:
No I do not think that the abortion decision should rest with the woman concerned in consultation with her doctor or any person for that matter.
Nobody has the right to decide to kill another human being!
No I do not believe in the establishment of abortion clinics.
Why? With an abortion a human being is killed. Which is against the Law of God and the law of this country.
J. Dieleman
Willowdale, Ont.
