Sir: Dr Rowan Wilson (28 February) paints a gloomy picture
with the future gynaecologist little better than a state-hired 'womb scraper.' He writes: 'We must accept that if abortion OD demand can be practised with impunity under the law individual doctors will not be able to bold out permanently against it.'
Provided the state puts no type of Red bloc pressure on nurses and doctors I am sure he is wrong. He is assuming that the London abortion trade which will cut up £5 million next year will prove too great an attraction for the average decent boy or girl who takes up the vocation of doctor or nurse.
Everything we hear from the Red bloc coun- tries, however, sustains his forecast. A distin- guished gynaecologist lecturing in London re- cently concluded with this pathetic line. 'This massive abortion programme we must carry out until the people change their minds.'
Poor fellow, his hospital group had to face 50,000 abortions a year. 1,000 a week, some killed with saline (a kind of kippering), some sucked out and some produced by little caesarean sections.
If I had my way I should set up a ducking stool on Thamesside for the 200 MPS who passeed this Bill in 1967. One ducking for the naive and two for those who told us that the Bill aimed at the protection of the patients' health and that it would never be used as a licence for abortion on request.
Hugh Cameron McLaren Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Q. Elizabeth Maternity Hospital, Birmingham
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