ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC):
ATTORNEY-GENERAL Ian Douglas has spoken out against abortion being carried out in Dominica. "Abortion is not only wrong from a legal perspective as Attorney General in the country, but it is also wrong because it goes against the ultimate law for which we all must be respon-sible and that is the law of the Lord," said Douglas in an address to a World Respect Life day rally over the weekend.
He told the rally held in Portsmouth that abortion and the threat it poses to life is totally wrong.
Politicians in the past have kept silent on the issue, but Douglas referred to the moral and biblical implications of abortion.
"Even after the law of the law ceases to exist, there is a greater law, there is a greater purpose that kicks in and that is the purpose of creation and the purpose of creation is life," Douglas told the rally.
He said the population of any nation contributed to its productivity.
"Economically we all have a responsibility to the productivity of the country, we lament everyday that business is slow cause our population is small. From any angle you wish to look at it, abortion and the threat that it possess to life is wrong on every single purpose," Douglas said.
