'HUMANITY' (Your Views, November 28) agrees with abortion if the baby is going to suffer severe mental or crippling body deformities.
Nobody presumes that bringing up a special needs child is easy. We know the heartbreak which parents will suffer when they first learn that their much-wanted baby has serious problems.
But special needs children are human beings, too. They have as much right to life as anyone. None of us is perfect -- and how we treat the severely disabled is a measure of our civilisation: Killing them can never be right.
If any of your readers want to see the truly just and loving way of responding to the challenge of severe disability, we invite them to visit Zoe's Place, the first hospice for special needs babies and very young children in the UK (perhaps the world). It is in West Derby, Liverpool, and run by The Life Hospital Trust. You are all welcome to see for yourself how much love and joy even the most 'hopeless' children can give and receive. We want more Zoe's Places -- not more pre-birth screening in order to seek out candidates for eugenicist 'mercy-killings'.
B H Tetlow
Chairman, Life
LIFE House
Newbold Terrace
Leamington Spa, CV32 4EA
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