Taking lives through abortion seems to be a sliding slope we slip further and further down the more small steps we take to desensitize ourselves. Will the same soon be true of euthanasia?

It is clear the public in England and Wales at least think advertising abortion services on television is going too far. See article here . A review of the advertising code there could allow such things as condoms and abortion to be advertised on TV. Apparently submissions to the Advertising Standards Agency about the changes included petitions with over 40,000 signatures. The sheer volume of the response has delayed publication of the review because each submission needs to be carefully considered – normally they attract only a few hundred responses. That is very encouraging!! I wonder if such a proposal would get support here in New Zealand?

Think of how normalizing such advertizing on TV would be for young girls! We can see that what started off being thought of as something to be done in extraordinary circumstances has become almost a form of contraception now. No matter how ‘moral’ and ‘mature’ you are, one thing I have learnt is you simply can’t listen to constant messages on TV and in songs and other media and not be affected by it even slightly.

The Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (“SPUC”) in the U.K. (also in NZ) commented “Abortion is neither medicine nor a consumer product. Presenting it as either of these erodes respect for life and is highly misleading and damaging to women, who may feel pressured into making a quick decision which can never be revoked. The law in the UK does not permit abortion on demand and there is no ‘right’ to have an abortion.”

People are also fighting harder to have euthanasia legalized. There was a bill put forward in the Scottish Parliament in 2005 and the Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill was put forward in the House of Lords a year later. It is certain that further attempts will be made. In ten years time will we see people fighting to have ‘killing your rather annoying (and thought to quite wealthy!) and surely in a lot of pain and not quite with it and surely better off not living in a big old house on her own taking all those pills everyday granny’ advertised on TV?

What do we think about these things? As English philosopher Edmund Burke said ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’