Dear Editor,

Our little women at ASPIRE have scored a second-round knockdown over the Attorney General.

In the first round, they pinned him to the ropes with a strong decision from Judge Drysdale. She dismissed his attempt to block our claim and insisted that the matter of abortion law deserved substantive public discussion.

But the AG was determined to avoid that. So, he turned to the Court of Appeal asserting that the judge had erred in law, again begged for a dismissal, and asked for her to be removed.

Late last week, the Court of Appeal made a unanimous decision dismissing the AG’s claim and sending the matter back to the High Court and to the same judge.

He is down but not out.

Now the AG has a choice: He can finally allow us to present our case in High Court in St. John’s. Or he can appeal to the Privy Council in London.

If he appeals, he would be revealing that he prefers to subject the current and future welfare of women in Antigua and Barbuda to the views of our old and remote former colonial masters in England.

He would be choosing colonialism over independence. We will soon know.

For now, we celebrate Davida’s second-round knockdown of Goliath. And we prepare for Round 3.

We are pro-choice because we are prolife.

Sincerely,

ASPIRE