Mother of a five-year-old girl with a cleft lip and palate wrote this letter to the editor:
“I was horrified to read that many couples now opt for abortion rather than risk having a baby with such a minor physical imperfection. My daughter is not some abnormal freak… She can, and does, lead a happy, fulfilled life… What sort of society do we live in when a minor facial deformity, correctable by surgery, is viewed as so abnormal as to merit abortion?”
Susan Kitching, London Sunday Times, February 11, 1990
Read another mother of a handicapped child expressing her horror over abortion here.
