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members of the community”. It also builds on the life is just another choice, the anti-slavery movement’s
remarks of peers, in the 1967 House of Lords debate, patient and dedicated reformers and abolitionists can
who described children with disabilities as “Mongols”, teach and inspire us.
“spastics”, “monstrosities”, “abnormal”, “subnormal”,
“retarded” and “defective”.
It took decades to shift opinion, and for Parliament
to accept that it wasn’t simply a “choice” to own
This culture refuses to break the financial link another human being as a slave. Martin Luther King’s
between the abortion industry and independent niece, Dr Alveda King, who had two abortions that
counselling, and to provide help for women caught she now bitterly regrets, tells us that in our generation
in crisis. It prefers to bribe Northern Irish woman “the right to life is the greatest human rights cause of
with offers of £1,400 for
our times”.
every baby they abort in
England rather than give
Opinion
polls
them equivalent funding
repeatedly show that
or help to save the child
the public want the law
or to promote adoption.
made more restrictive –
and not decriminalised.
It extends its tentacles
Hundreds of MPs – not 29
into other societies
– now want the Abortion
by denying charities –
Act reformed and many
like Samaritan’s Purse
are pro-life. They simply
– funding for their
need to be more PC:
humanitarian
work
politically courageous.
in West Africa unless
they agree to undertake
Yes, I wish that more
abortions,
and
by
people believed in the
funding
programmes
transcendent nature of
like the brutal one-child
the sanctity of human life,
policy of forced abortions in China.
but I admit that this is dependent on a belief in God.
However, the good news for the unborn is that science
This culture ignores the inconvenient findings has caught up with faith and is the game-changer.
of scientists like Professor KJS Anand, one of the
world’s leading experts on foetal pain, that in the
In an editorial, Nature magazine spelt it out clearly:
light of “incontrovertible” evidence “it seems prudent “Your world was shaped in the first 24 hours after
to avoid pain during gestation”. It refuses to look conception. Where your head and feet would sprout,
at the accumulating evidence of the physical and and which side would form your back and which your
psychological effects of abortion on women.
belly, were being defined in the minutes and hours
after sperm and egg united.” And every time the scan
It creates its own untruthful narrative, illustrated allows us to gaze through a window into the womb we
by the recent remarks of the president of the Royal know that this is no bunion but a new member of the
College of Gynaecologists that abortion is just like human race.
having a bunion removed. When George Orwell wrote
in 1984 that “The party told you to reject the evidence
Prove to me that life does not begin at conception
of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential and I will change my mind about protecting that new
command,” he had people like her in mind.
life. Until then, I will continue to insist on Article 3
of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – that
This, then, is where the 1967 Abortion Act has