An old proverb says, "Where there is life there is hope". A football team may trail by a goal late in a match; but if time remains on the clock and determination lives in the heart of the players, there is hope for a victory. Someone may suffer life-threatening injuries in a car collision; but as long as their heart beats and they possess the will to live, there is hope for recovery. Firefighters enter burning buildings to rescue the trapped and injured. Why do they do this? Because they are convinced that life is valuable, and as long as there is hope that someone's life can be saved, they will run into those burning buildings.
Conceiving, bearing, and raising children is a profound act of hope: hope that their future will be better than our own, and hope that they themselves will craft a better world. Abortion extinguishes the hope that is a child, and frequently ravages the mothers who undergo the procedure. Abortion crushes hope.
Litsemba alibulali runs the venerable SiSwati saying. May Swaziland keep hope alive by protecting and nurturing mothers and children. No to abortion; yes to life and hope.
Rudy Poglitsh
rpoglitsh@live.com
more letters at http://letterstotheTOS.blogspot.com
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