Abortion
Sir: Thank you for printing my letter (May 5). The last two words of it should read 'aborted foetuses' not ' aborted features.'
Thomas W. Gadd Alexandra Court, Woodborough Road, Nottingham Sir I am happy to accept Mr Collis's apology for getting his facts about abortion wrong.
He goes on to say, that nonetheless the number of British foetuses aborted last year equals the population of York. Could he explain what advantages (spiritual, economic, political, agricultural, ecological etc) he supposes would accrue to the country by adding to our already dense population each year an additional population of unwanted persons equivalent to the population of the city of York.
If I could be persuaded that compelling women to have babies against their will and better judgement, would result in some immense benefit to the country avoa whole, then I might possibly consider that there was at least some justification for interfering with people's private lives in the way Mr Collis and the poetess Rachel Law would favour. As it is, it seems to me that the views they express are as immoral as they are, by any practical criterion, damaging to the country's interests.
Madeleine Simms 17 Dustan Road, London NW 11.
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