Medical matters
Sir: What a splendid and brave man John Linklater is (March 22), and what an apathetic nation we are, letting the humanistic element of the Labour Party lead us to disaster. We will truly get the dictators we deserve.
My husband and I have seriously considered civil disobedience: i.e. not paying our national insurance stamp. We object to our money being used for free contraception for all at a cost of £27 million, gay clubs in Islington cost £37,800 and 'abortion-on-demand' at God knows what cost. Our children's 'youth is raped daily in newsagents by the media and by false sex education. We strive to teach modesty, chastity and self-restraint but everywhere they are besieged by propaganda for `doyour-own-thing — the state will dispose of your mistakes.' I have heard that 0.1 per cent of abortions are by caesarian section — this where the baby's heart is beating when removed from the mother. This is 1,600 babies who could live — we should stand up and scream if it were only one. Many people would be willing to pay larger contributions to the NHS if the money were properly appropriated. It is a scandal that charitable organisations, without government aid, have to be set up to look after our chronically sick, and children with haemophilia should suffer while healthy young women are in our hospitals having abortions. Mr and Mrs E. R. Caddick Upfields Farm, Park Lane, Maghull
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