david f,

Then may we take it that you are quite happy with the killing of a feotus by a jab in the head with a knitting needle whilst the head is still inside the mother's body?

Dear Josephus,

I heard that story as a little child and was badly frightened. The Bible is not a fit book for children, and I suppose other children are still getting frightened by that horrid story. We try to shield children from material that is not fit for them but subject them to the Bible which has many appalling stories.

I am glad that women have had the choice to terminate pregnancies they didn’t wish to continue. I am more concerned with the life of women than I am with the foetuses. Apparently the fate of the foetus is of greater concern to you than what a woman wants.

http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/sexualbehaviors/index.htm is a site concerning sexual behaviour of teenagers in the US. It contains the following:

34% had had sexual intercourse during the previous 3 months, and, of these 41% did not use a condom the last time they had sex.

Apparently either sex education is inadequate, and/or there is not enough access to contraceptives and disease preventive materials.

The story of the Jew funding an escape for victims of ISIS is inspiring. It would be good if relations between religions were more like that.

Dear Is Mise,

I am very unhappy with abortion by knitting needle or a backyard butcher.

I support legal abortion by an approved medical procedure so desperate women do not have to resort to such measures.

//Australian schools has sex education yet VD is rife in promiscuous teenagers.//

I think you might be mistaking 'teenagers' for 'koalas'. An easy enough mistake to make if you're complete bloody idiot.

The best stats I could find for STI rates were ABS stats, available here:

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4102.0Main+Features10Jun+2012

The STI with the highest rate of infection was chlamydia. The highest infection rate is found amongst female teenagers, with a rate of approx 2.2%. This is less 'rife' than psychotic disorders, and about as 'rife' as eating disorders.

Koalas can also catch chlamydia (a different strain to humans). In some parts of Australia, koala infection rates are as high as 90%:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22207442

If 'rife' is the appropriate adjective to use for a disease effecting about 1 in 50, how low would infection rates have to be for disease to be considered rare, or even just common? And what is the appropriate adjective for infection rates of 90%? Extra-rife?

Just for future reference, it's really easy to tell the difference between koalas and teenagers: one is smelly, dopey and sleeps for most of the day, and the other is a marsupial.

david f,

"I am very unhappy with abortion by knitting needle or a backyard butcher."

You may well be unhappy but is it a baby that is killed by the quick jab when the head is insight but still inside?

Let's have a hypothetical; two sisters become pregnant on the same day and their pregnancies go fine until the eighth month when one of them has to be delivered by caesarean section, the girl baby is fine and thrives, a really healthy child.
I would consider that her cousin, still in the womb, to be an unborn child and that to deliberately kill it is morally murder.

Dear Anti-Abortionists,

I think it is a great forward step that abortion is now legal, and I would not want to go back to the bad old days when it wasn't. I don't feel like arguing further.

david f,

Good time to pull out; you obviously see the pitfalls ahead!!