I am strongly against abortion, not for "religious" reasons but for the consequences. I have seen all of this with friends.
(1) The father becomes distraught immediately
(2) The mother becomes distraught and in some cases is permanently traumatised. Sometimes they can't look at a child of the age their own would have been without the dreadful feeling of what might have been. And it gets worse if they get past childbearing age without having had one of their own. And worse still into old age when they miss the child they might have had and are lonely and unloved.
(3) A friend of mine stupidly got his partner pregnant and abortion was a thought that crossed his mind. I encouraged him to look forward to having the child, which he would enjoy, and now his three-year-old daughter is his favourite companion.
More generally, it promotes callousness amongst the medical staff involved, and within society as a whole, and when we get old there will be nobody to look after us apart from Filipinos, not that I have anything against them. So there will be increasing pressure for euthanasia when people are no longer viable economic units. And all this has come from a mistaken and misguided notion of individual "rights" which is wrecking society. We will all pay for this "progressive" legislation.
Britain has the most liberal abortion laws in Europe - up to 24 weeks, an age at which premature babies have been kept alive and survived. In France, abortion after 12 weeks is allowed only if two doctors say a woman's health is endangered or the foetus has a serious abnormality; in Sweden, abortion is provided free and on demand until week 18. After that, a woman must secure special permission from a medical board; Denmark has abortion on demand for the first 12 weeks. After that, there are limits and terminations are few after 16 weeks; Britain's laws are also more liberal than restrictive abortion regimes in New Zealand and Australia, where the ability to obtain an abortion depends on different state laws. The only major Western country where abortion is more easily available, in some places, than in Britain is the U.S. But then in the U.S they kill more people by judicial murder than any country in the world apart from China, so that is not so surprising.
Sign the petition to repeal the abortion law
These are the words of the petition.
"We the undersigned petition that the 1967 Abortion Act be revoked. The act of abortion destroys the lives of thousands of women every day, not to mention the innocent children, and is reprehensible in all circumstances."
I don't agree with "in all circumstances", nor the attention-grabbing title "abortion is murder", but I think it is worth supporting in that it draws attention to the issue and its need for reform. Of course it will have no concrete effect but it will remind the self-styled "liberal" establishment that there are other views around.
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