Easter eggs!

I have always been an instinctive pro life anti abortion kind of person. What I am as natural man I am even more so as christian man. Two relevant stories have attracted my attention this week.

Right to be a parent ?

Natalie Evans was left infertile after cancer therapy. She has been engaged in a 5 year legal battle for the right to become a parent using six frozen embryos, fertilised by her ex partner, Howard Johnston. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against her stating that her rights to become a mother do not outweigh the rights of her ex boy friend to choose when, and with whom, to become a father. This was a 'last chance' decision and the embryos will now be destroyed.

Travels with my camera: a matter of life and death.

"I knew that it was the killing of a child. I was ashamed of being Jane Roe", a woman called Norma McCorvey told Miranda Sawyer ( the camera owner referred to above).

McCorvey was in fact Jane Roe involved in Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision by the US Supreme Court which made abortion legal but over which America has argued ever since. McCorvey has since become a pro lifer and in a TV programme for British Television this week gave a rare interview. A conversation with a young woman, a victim of rape and more troubles besides, confirmed that it will never be possible to lessen the moral agony of one of the worst choices imaginable. The camera provided photographs of aborted foetuses which were show at the end of the film.

Pro-Lifers argue that life begins at conception and that the law should give embryos exactly the same rights as a child even where the life begins by IVF in a Petri dish in a laboratory. Is there any difference between killing a person and taking a life? Is abortion murder?

Easter eggs

Of course, easter eggs are a symbol of new life breaking into the world from beyond, whether from the womb or from the tomb.