Caution urged over support for abortion | Letters

Guardian readers Andrew Anderson, Shirley Harrington and CDC Armstrong respond to Zoe Williams’ article

Zoe Williams (G2, October 26) writes as if abortion raises no ethical issues: for her, and those she quotes, it would be “regulated like any other healthcare measure”. However, in presenting her bill, Diana Johnson MP said that “decriminalisation will not make it easier to access abortions post-24 weeks”, and indeed that “professional bodies that are best placed to take action can continue to prohibit [gender preference] as a ground for abortion” (before 24 weeks). Thus abortion would not be like any other medical procedure. It would be odd if removing a tumour became illegal if it had been growing for more than a statutorily defined time. Williams and others of like mind don’t wish to admit, far less confront, the moral difficulties that difference presents.
Andrew Anderson
Edinburgh

• The enthusiastic support for unrestricted abortion – eg the full-page article in Wednesday’s Society pages and the G2 article by Zoe Williams – appears increasingly one-sided in a newspaper usually noted for fair and unbiased reporting of current social issues.

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