R H ASHTON should realise that not all pregnancies are planned or indeed wanted! There are many reasons for this, lack of proper sex education, lack of access to contraception, faulty contraceptives, rape, fetal abnormalities or socio-economic reasons. Or women might just not want a child. It’s their choice! (Not the State’s or the church’s). So what happens when you ban all abortion? Well in Paraguay a 10-year-old rape victim was denied an abortion after being raped by her stepfather. According to the WHO complications from illegal unsafe abortions kill on average 47,000 women each year. The Catholic Church and SPUC state that pregnant women exposed to the Zika virus and who may be carrying foetuses with serious brain defects should not be permitted to have abortions! So women are expected to bring up unwanted babies with microcephaly! Another example of Christian love R H Ashton?

Terry Banfield
Cardigan Crescent
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Cwmbran