Nearly 200,000 Abortions a Year “Not a Problem” for UK’s Biggest Abortion Advocate
From LifeSite News
Commentary by Hilary White
April 2, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In 2006, there were 193,700 abortions in Britain, most committed for "social reasons" unrelated to the mother’s health. This, however, is "not a problem" according to the current chairman of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Britain’s busiest abortionist organisation.
Ann Furedi responded to the fuss in Parliament and the media in the last weeks of March over the rates of abortion and repeat abortions in Britain, saying that women simply have better things to do with their time than be mothers and that legal abortion has been a boon to that new orientation.
In a column in the hard-left online magazine Spiked titled, "Why rising abortion rates are not a problem", Ann Furedi wrote, "Why is there a continuing high rate of abortion? In my view it is quite simple: there are a lot of people out there having sex who don’t want to have children."
A Conservative MP revealed in March that one third of women in Britain asking for abortions have already had at least one child killed in the womb. Mark Pritchard, MP for The Wrekin in Shropshire, told Parliament that abortion in Britain has reached "industrial" levels, with at least 1300 women in his figures having had as many as five abortions.
Furedi continues, "I would argue that we have a large cohort of people who either don’t want to have children or don’t want to have children at this particular time. As a society, we have a very high expectation of family planning and birth control."
Read the article HERE.
Read also ‘Abortion in the UK - Money making’ by Peter Ould
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
