No, it is not always God’s will to conceive!

Jan 01, 2006

SIR — I refer to Catherine Bekunda’s article “Abortion is murder, let us be human” published on December 30. She allows no circumstances whatsoever under which abortion might be right and compares those who advocate its legalisation to Joseph Kony, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden.

SIR — I refer to Catherine Bekunda’s article “Abortion is murder, let us be human” published on December 30. She allows no circumstances whatsoever under which abortion might be right and compares those who advocate its legalisation to Joseph Kony, Saddam Hussein, and Osama bin Laden.

I do not expect to convince her and those who share her views otherwise. But the acid test for those who hold this uncompromising stance are these:
would you yourself carry a pregnancy to full term if you were the victim of rape? Would you encourage your daughter to do the same if they were the victim of rape or pregnant at the age of 13? Would you stop termination if the pregnancy were the result of rape from the father?

The argument that it is God that wills the conception to take place and that therefore termination is going against God’s will is a poor reading of the Bible (and I believe of the Scriptures of the world faiths).

Nowhere do we read — certainly not in the Bible — that we are at the mercy of nature.

In the Bible, creation is a liberating activity, empowering us to tame nature with the use of science.

Rev. Amos Kasibante
Leicester, UK

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