Dear Harry

I have been a long time fan of your website and have not written earlier. However, I have a burning question for you.

In your 'most fabulous' piece 'Why Violence is often Justified' [LINK] you argue that violence by men who are being threatend with losng their children is 'justified'. 

Would you say the same for those who threaten violence against abortion doctors?

G

Hello G

Yes, is the simple answer. Of course violence is 'justified' - at least in the eyes of those who believe that abortion is murder.

After all, if you are a person who believes that killing millions of these 14-week old beings ... 

... every year, is the same as killing millions of these beings ...

... or these beings ...

... every year, then how can it not be 'justifiable' to do all that you can do to prevent such massacres and, if necessary, to target those people who are doing all the killings?

Well, there's your answer!

"Men should keep their pants on

Interestingly, a few days ago I was being wound up by a radio programme wherein a typical selfish, self-aggrandised woman was parroting the usual tripe about, "Men should keep their pants on if they want to avoid unwanted pregnancies."

She was also arguing that men are just as responsible as women for unwanted babies - when, in fact, it is women who are nowadays totally responsible for producing babies (e.g. see my piece Why Should a Man Bear Responsibility for a Woman who Decides to have a Baby?) and then, later in the same programme, the issue of abortion came up. And, needless to say, this woman then argued that women should be completely entitled to have abortions more or less on demand.

She did not say, "Women should keep their knickers on if they want to avoid unwanted pregnancies."

No, Sir!

When it comes to women wanting to get themselves out of having to deal with the consequences of unwanted pregnancies, no financial or moral expense must be spared.

(Men, of course, have to bear the consequences - whether they like it or not - of whatever the woman chooses to do; e.g. Rant Against the Child Support Agency.)

And then, this very same woman started jabbering on about the patriarchy and how women should be able to do whatever they want to do with their own bodies.

"My body, my choice."

I nearly suffered a hernia as a result of screaming so loudly at the radio - more or less as follows ...

This ...

... is most definitely NOT

'YOUR'

body!

But, back to the issue.

How can it not be justified for you to attack those whom you perceive to be committing millions of acts of murder every year?

My own view on the moral aspects of abortion are fairly ropy, and not at all clear.

Thankfully!

I say, "thankfully", because if I was one of those people who was certain that thousands of children were being killed every week by abortionists, then I think that I would be driven insane by what is going on.

Well, thankfully, I do not know whether or not that 14-week old being in the picture is a child or not.

And I think that most of me does not actually want to know.

But I know this.

The 'my body, my choice' argument fails completely and utterly if that being is a child.

And if that being is a child, then abortionists are, indeed, committing thousands of murders every week.

And if the above sounds somewhat muddled and confused then this is because somewhat muddled and confused is exactly how I feel about the whole issue.

Best wishes,

Harry