Ms Angela Thiang has also written to the Straits Times on abortion

April 22, 2009 by admin
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22 April 2009

Ms Angela Thiang Pei Yun, a member of AWARE who attended the AGM on 28 March, has also spoken out on the issue of abortion, in addition to her anti-gay stand which has previously been publicized all over the internet. See her ST letter dated 04 August 2008 calling for a review of abortion laws here.

Ms Angela Thiang was the outspoken member at AWARE’s AGM who told the mainstream press that “questions about the new office bearers’ religion and their stand on homosexuality were not relevant“. (See here.)

According to the blog Alice Cheong in Wonderland, Ms Angela Thiang was previously the undergraduate student of NMP Prof Thio Li-Ann. She did a directed research paper, “Pride and Prejudice: Law, Morality, and Homosexual Politics in Singapore”, and is currently working in Thio Su Mien’s law firm — TSMP Law Corporation. (Thio Su Mien is NMP Thio Li-Ann’s mother).

In her ST letter entitled “Harmful effects of abortion justify review“, Ms Angela Thiang rehashed Professor Tan Seow Hon’s argument that abortion laws should be reviewed because medical evidence now suggests that women can suffer adverse physical and psychological effects as the result of an abortion.

I disagree with this line of thought, which conveniently neglects the fact that if you force a woman to have a child that she is incapable, for whatever reason, of having, that can cause immense harm to BOTH the child AND the woman. In other words, by disallowing abortion, you can end up causing lasting harm to not one, but two people.

Around the same time last year, I also penned an article explaining my views on abortion; see here.

It is absurd to compel women to conceive against their wishes if we do not first understand why they do not wish to conceive. To change the law and prevent them from having an abortion might consign many of the women to a lifetime of suffering and emotional anguish, and gravely harm their child who might have to grow up in an unconducive or even destructive environment.

The way to tackle our problem of not having enough babies is not to change abortion laws and make it more difficult for women to get an abortion, but to examine the economic and political principles on which Singapore is run, and see what can be done to make life less stressful for working parents and provide more financial and emotional support to mothers who have to juggle both parenting and work. The solution must be found in economic policy and politics, not in trying to temper with the right of a woman to control her own body.

“My prochoice stand on abortion laws“, Ng E-Jay, 25 July 2008

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2 Comments on Ms Angela Thiang has also written to the Straits Times on abortion

  1. Misinformation spread by AWARE’s new Exco is deserving of the sternest rebuke : Sgpolitics.net on Fri, 24th Apr 2009 4:27 am

    2. [...] Another outspoken AWARE member Ms Angela Thiang Pei Yun, who told the mainstream press that “questions about the new office bearers’ religion and their stand on homosexuality were not relevant“, is also currently working in Thio Su Mien’s law firm, and had previously written an undergraduate Directed Research paper, “Pride and Prejudice: Law, Morality, and Homosexual Politics in Singapore”, under the supervision of NMP Thio Li-Ann. (See here.) [...]

  2. Misinformation spread by AWARE’s new Exco is deserving of the sternest rebuke : Ng E-Jay’s domain on Mon, 27th Apr 2009 5:22 am

    3. [...] Another outspoken AWARE member Ms Angela Thiang Pei Yun, who told the mainstream press that “questions about the new office bearers’ religion and their stand on homosexuality were not relevant“, is also currently working in Thio Su Mien’s law firm, and had previously written an undergraduate Directed Research paper, “Pride and Prejudice: Law, Morality, and Homosexual Politics in Singapore”, under the supervision of NMP Thio Li-Ann. (See here.) [...]

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