British Section of the World Federation of Doctors Who Respect Human Life

The motto of the “Silent No More” and “Operation Outcry” women campaigners is “Women deserve better”. This year the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that at least they deserve better than partial-birth abortion.

The Hon. Secretary of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Richard Warren, has admitted that abortion is difficult and upsetting work and it is done with obvious reticence. “We are seeing more doctors who are reluctant to be involved in the process” (The Times, 16 Apr 07).

Linking the violence of abortion with the advancement of women was an act of supreme hypocrisy. Violence and lies go together. Abortion is a crime against women.

40 years of abortion in Britain

“General measures to regulate population growth to ensure that children are both wanted and planned are desirable….” David Steel mentioned this Memorandum on Therapeutic Abortion issued, in 1966, by the Royal Medico-Psychological Association (now the Royal College of Psychiatrists), during the debates on his Bill. He did not quote this part of it.

Despite growing demographic imbalance, population controllers still try to dictate abortion policy round the world, and seem unstoppable in Britain, like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice’s enchanted broom. ‘Abort early and often’ seems to be Government policy. “Investment in services has been heavily concentrated in early ‘chemical’ abortions for women up to nine weeks pregnant, which are available widely in hospitals and clinics. Late abortion services have almost all been contracted out, partly because many hospital doctors are unwilling to carry out the procedure,” The Times reported on Apr 19 2007.

The number of teenagers having second abortions exceeds 100 a month, according to figures released by the Dept. of Health after a request under the Freedom of Information Act (Life Labour Group News, Summer 2007). Apparently judging that 200,000 abortions a year in England and Wales are not enough, the British Medical Association at its Annual Meeting in 2007 approved the proposal by Dr. Evan Harris MP (why is this MP on the Ethics Committee?) that only one doctor need certify “need” for legal abortion. It turned down his suggestion that nurses could do it, but this might rise again when the Government’s proposed Human Tissues and Embryos Bill is introduced. “Before the end of the year, pro-abortion MPs hope to see a vote in the House of Commons which will allow abortion on demand in the first three months of pregnancy, allow abortions to be performed by nurses and allow abortions to be performed in doctors’ surgeries and family planning clinics” (IMAGE News, July 2007).