IN reply to your contributors A McKenna (HAS, Sept 12), Eric Gendle and Graham Linthorp (HAS, Sept 13), it is my experience that surveys can give varying results depending on how questions are phrased.
Instead of relying on surveys for guidance in this life and death matter I look to the United Nations and the most widely ratified human rights treaty ever; The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (ratified November 20, 1989 – brought into force September 2, 1990).
This states “the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth”.
As for poor Jacob Rees-Mogg, he accepts the incontrovertible scientific fact that life begins at conception and believes all life to be sacrosanct – two views, I would have thought, worthy of respect.
Anthony Robb, Sedgefield
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