50 years on: On the eve of the anniversary, advocates push for more and more abortion
from SPUC:
Is 8.8 million lives lost not enough for them?
Tomorrow, 27 October, marks 50 years since the Abortion Act of 1967 was signed into law. Since then, 8,894,355 million babies have been lost to abortion. But the abortion lobby, backed by MPs such as Diana Johnson, are pushing to make the situation even worse, by removing abortion from the criminal law entirely.
“Reforming” abortion
This week, a conference on the Act took place at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, put on by the University of Bristol Law school, and heavily promoted by bpas. It featured a whole line up of abortion activists, doctors and MPs, all advocating “reform”, as could be seen from all the people live-tweeting the conference using the hashtag #AbortionAct50.
A quick glance through the tweets shows that delegates spoke in favour of sex-selective abortion, advocated abortion in countries where it is illegal, abortion for “defective” children, and home abortions.
One of the speakers was Diana Johnson, who last year tabled a ten-minute rule bill with the aim of decriminalising abortion. According to people at the conference, she is now intending to shortly publish the text of a decriminalisation bill (though, given that she does not have a slot for a private members bill this session, it’s unclear how she plans to get it through Parliament). The Guardian also reports that “Johnson is now working on draft legislation for a full–blown decriminalisation bill.”
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