When it comes to abortion, silence is complicity
In her sitcom role as imperious ex-chatelaine Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in To The Manor Born, Penelope Keith once claimed: “I represent the silent majority.” It is tempting to take refuge in such a thought, telling oneself that eventually right-thinking will prevail on the issue of abortion. That killing your child is an abhorrent solution to an unwanted pregnancy seems self-evident to me, and indeed to a silent majority – even of those who choose it.
