Abortion
Sir: Mr Kestelman (Letters, November 24) wants to know how a fertilised human egg-cell is properly describable as a person. If he, and others desiring the answer, will read the late Rudolf Steiner, it will be revealed to them, by the greatest philosopher of our day, that the gravest mistake of our materialistic pseudo-scientists is to treat man as a physical being. (The second greatest philosopher of our day. the late Henri Bergson, pinpointed the same essential central truth in his mature conclusion that the brain is a limiting organ designed to confine us, for earth-living, to our five senses which cannot convey the whole truth.) I wrote David Steel at the time (summer 1967) not to press on with his Private Member's Abortion Bill, explaining what Steiner revealed; but Mr Steel just "didn't want to know." After five years maybe he now wishes he had done. It is the spiritual being or person who is aborted.
Louis de Pinna 5 New Square, Lincoln's Inn, London WC2.
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