1 February 2001 FOUR YEARS OF ABORTION DISASTER IN SOUTH AFRICA Today, four years ago, abortion on demand was legalised in our country. As we anticipated, the progression of the ethics of death is taking place, exactly as Doctors For Life (DFL) predicted in our submission to parliament in October 1996. These four years have proved that social justice is impossible if our right to life and our personhood are contingent upon somebody else wanting us to exist. "Every child, a wanted child" ultimately implies "every person, a wanted person," and that implies the end of liberty and a state of injustice. Legalised abortion on demand has placed the unborn child in South Africa today as much in jeopardy as a disabled person in Nazi Germany - except that abortion does not even involve the pro-forma review by a panel of experts which the Nazi programme required. Indeed, the unborn child has no rights whatsoever. There is no provision for defence on behalf of the victim, and there is no presumption of innocence until proven guilty; in fact, the victim's innocence is completely immaterial. The only thing that matters is "wantedness." As we have been implementing this legislation over the past four years, South Africa has slid down the slippery slope of moral relativity from abortion for specific indications, to abortion on demand up till a day before birth. Legislation that will open the door to the involuntary killing of patients by doctors (involuntary euthanasia) is being processed. A pill that will be potent enough to abort a child at 5 weeks of pregnancy is being legalised. With the introduction of the morning after pill, it will be possible to do an abortion in the privacy of your own home, as often as you like, with no medical oversight. In about 25% of cases this form of abortion fails and, because the child already exists when the mother takes the morning after pill, these children may be born with defects. Because the tablet will be available over the counter without a medical doctor's supervision, it will leave the mothers with life long guilt complexes and nobody else to blame. Doctors For Life is an organisation about 800 medical doctors, specialists, dentists, veterinary surgeons and professors of medicine from various medical faculties across South Africa and abroad. For more information contact Dr Eseza Nambassi at: 082 5789 345 |
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