24 JUNE 1966, Page 16

SIR,—I read with some interest the curious letter of the

Press Officer of the Abortion Law Reform Association (Mrs Anna Chataway) in which having declared the right of every woman to be able to apply to terminate a pregnancy with which 'for one reason or another' she feels she cannot cope, she went on to proclaim 'the right of every child to be born wanted.' In other words, every unborn child has a right in these circumstances to be killed and there is a duty incumbent on the mother to kill it. So we have reached the end of the cycle. A crime has been changed from a right into a duty. Unborn children, you have been warned, choose your parents carefully. NORMAN ST. IOHN-STEVAS Executive Secretary, Friends of the Foetus House of Commons, London, SW I