Abortion must be a more serious matter than taking out tonsils and bunions
by Peter Saunders, TCW:
A leading doctor has called for abortions to be decriminalised and made much more freely available.
Professor Lesley Regan (pictured here), president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), has said that abortions should be treated no differently from other ‘medical procedures’ – including something as simple as removing a bunion.
Next Friday the RCOG General Council will hold a ballot to decide whether the College should formally back total decriminalisation, which would put further pressure on the Government to overhaul the law.
The doctors’ union (the BMA), the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the ‘We Trust Women’ campaign by abortion industry leaders have already signalled their support for such a move.
Professor Regan said there had been a ‘societal shift’, particularly among medical professionals.
Of this there is no doubt.
The Hippocratic Oath, which graduating doctors used to take, says, ‘I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked nor suggest such counsel, nor in like manner will I give a woman a pessary to produce abortion.’ So most doctors today, by their complicity in abortion, are in direct breach of it, which is ironically the main reason the oath has fallen out of use.
See also: RCOG votes to decriminalise abortion – betrays its members, women and babies, from SPUC
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