So Messrs. Daniher and Jessop would sooner watch their hopeless and helpless relatives slowly starve themselves to death. I am so glad they are not my relations. If someone is completely hopeless and there is no purpose to their life and they wish to die why should this be denied them? Death is inevitable and the will to survive is man's strongest instinct and I think that the option to choose death would not be taken by anyone not totally certain of making that final choice.
As for quoting the abortion law I have to tell Mr Jessop that if a woman really does not want to have a baby she will find a way not to have it. A ‘D&C' is infinitely preferable to a knitting needle or coat hanger.
A. McComish, Tauranga.