1) As of this month, July 2022, it is estimated that the human population is 7.96 billion. Nearly 8 billion (8,000,000,000) fractious, squalling, hungry, antsy human beings on the planet. The earth doesn’t need more people, it seems to me. Small children need to be taught the difference between ‘I need’ and ‘I want’; the adult will say, for example, ‘You don’t need another biscuit, you want another biscuit.’ But it seems many adults don’t know the difference. For instance, a person needs a holiday, but wants to fly around destroying the atmosphere, even when we know that air travel, and motor travel, is bad for the environment. And the very righteous people who are ‘pro-life’, do they really think that God created this beautiful planet for us to thrash around destroying it? Really?
2) Did anyone ask the unwanted children? By denying women the right to abortion, the ‘pro-lifers’ condemn yet more innocent children to suffer a life unwanted. And it is suffering, it’s a torment; life as a human being becomes a life-sentence when you’re not wanted. It’s miserable. We certainly don’t need more miserable people on earth.
3) The woman who knows that she doesn’t want the child she is carrying is the only person on earth who can know it. Any woman who wants an abortion for whatever reason must have freedom of choice. Women are not cattle, not breeding machines. If the woman wants the child she is carrying, then that child has a chance of a decent, fulfilled life, and may even be happy; but the chances of a happy, fulfilled life are very slim when the mother doesn’t want the child. A woman should not be put in that position. To deny the mother the right to choose is cruel and unnatural punishment for both mother and unwanted child.
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Rewilding a garden is very easy. You just let the garden do what it wants. I do pull out a lot of the bindweed, cut back the brambles, and keep a path clear so that I can walk down the garden without risking breaking my neck tripping over the wild, exuberant grass. But even in this small space, the rewards of rewilding are almost breathtaking. If you’re lucky enough to have a garden, do try it - just let the wild things do what they do. Seeing the results has the added benefit of showing us that nature can recover from the damage we’ve inflicted; and allows us to see that we aren’t the absolute centre of the universe.