Clifford Longley (The Tablet, 10 January) restates the argument that in discerning how and for whom to cast a vote in the general election, it ought not to be based on a single issue. He then argues that the calculus to employ is how one's vote might result in further impoverishment of the poor. Fair enough, but if we are going to adopt such a calculus, would it not be more authentically equitable and fair-minded if, whilst we measure the possible impact of our voting on poverty, we must not forget those whom Benedict XVI called “the poorest of the poor”, the unborn whom Pope Francis calls the “defenceless” among us, for as he states in Evangelii Gaudium “defence of unborn life is closely linked to the defence of each and every other human right” and that “once this conviction disappears, so do solid and lasting foundations for the defence of human rights”.
Edmund Adamus, Director for Marriage and Family, Westminster Diocese
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