Getting married or having an abortion ‘are the same morally’: Shock claim by pregnancy clinic boss
by Steve Doughty, Mailonline:
Abortion is simply another form of birth control and should be as freely available as contraception, the head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service has claimed.
Ann Furedi, chief executive of the country’s biggest abortion clinic chain, also argued that there is no moral difference between decisions on a termination and whether to get married or divorced.
And there is nothing morally wrong with destroying a foetus because ‘it kills a being that has no sense of life or death’, she said.
The call for abortion on demand, without time limits, comes amid a rise in the number of terminations in England and Wales, especially among older and cohabiting women.
Mrs Furedi’s charity carries out more than one in three abortions in England and Wales, and around one in 14 pregnancies in 2014 ended in one of its clinics. It collected more than £27million from the NHS that year, funding almost all of its 66,000 terminations.
Her call for abortion to be made as easily available as condoms comes in a book to be published next month, arguing that it is ‘a travesty of our freedom’ for terminations to be regulated by criminal law.
Under the 1967 Abortion Act, abortion is legal if two doctors agree that continuing with a pregnancy involves a greater risk to the health of the woman, or her existing children, than having a termination.
Since 1990 there has been a time limit of 24 weeks of pregnancy, after which an abortion can be carried out only if there is a grave threat to life or of severe foetal abnormality.
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