Abortion clinic bonus scheme is appalling
by Ann Widdecombe, Daily Express:
The Care Quality Commission carried out an investigation into that town’s Marie Stopes clinic and found that its staff were being paid bonuses for women who went through with abortions.
ndeed inspectors found evidence that in all 70 Marie Stopes clinics in the country there was a policy of calling women who had decided against abortions to offer a new appointment.
Whatever one’s views may be on abortion it is surely abhorrent that such a procedure involving the life of a child, the emotional wellbeing of the mother and long-term consequences if the wrong decision is taken, should ever be a cause for profit.
It is doubly appalling when, as inspectors noted, girls under 16 are involved.
None of this will come as any surprise to charities such as Life, which for years has picked up the pieces of the impact on women who had been pressured into abortion as well as offering hope to women who felt that it was the only way out of a difficult situation.
One told me that she could not walk past the door of the British Pregnancy Advice Service and took a detour to get to work every day for months after her consultation because she had felt so unhappy at the way she was treated when she said she was uncertain about abortion.
The Department of Health may not listen to organisations such as Life but it should not ignore its own inspectors.
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