[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Though not presuming to offer an opinion on the matter discussed in the letters of Dr. Harry Roberts and Dr. Sym, I venture to question their use of the engagingly alliterative expression "slippery slope," for by it they seem to envisage contraception, abortion and euthanasia as suc- cessive downward steps.
Is there not some confusion of thought here ? For it is
obvious that, so far from contraception being a first step in the direction of abortion or euthanasia, it would preclude the possibility of either. We cannot blow out a candle which has not been lighted, nor is it possible to terminate, by those or any other means, life which has never existed.
That the candle in all cases ought to be lighted is a reflection which, if they entertain it, should seriously disquiet celibates and those who refuse parenthood altogether.—
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