22 JUNE 1934, Page 20

LEGAL AND ILLEGAL ABORTION

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The resolution just passed by the Congress of the Women's Co-operative Guild, calling upon the Government to legalize abortion, is in reality a resolution in favour of murder—to use an ugly but exact word. Christians have always held that the deliberate destruction of life, however embryonic, is a form of murder. Your correspondent, Dr. Stella Browne, speaks with admiration of the " free minds" of the women who voted for the abolition of the present " antiquated laws." As a matter of fact, it is a reversion to pre-Christimi paganism, and the pagan mind allowed itself many startling forms' of licer.cz., of which abortion was one.—