Let the bells ring out for eight million little lost lives

Oct 17, 2017 by

by Dan Pitt, The Conservative Woman:

There is an anniversary upon us. A 50th anniversary. One that conservatives or Christians or lovers of human life cannot celebrate, no indeed! It shall be marked, it shall be commemorated. Of course, I am referring to the Abortion Act 1967. The splendid Ann Widdecombe, former Conservative MP and minister, has put her shoulder behind the Pro-Life Alliance’s spiffing cause of having bells rung from every church, be it a Gothic Revival designed by Pugin or a Norman pile in Worcestershire, on Sunday October 29. This is a glorious and sublime notion to mark a rather unsavoury Act. Miss Widdecombe noted that ‘more than eight million unborn children have been taken from the womb since then. That’s the equivalent of the population of London’. The eight million figure is the UK only; some recent estimates have the worldwide figure of 40-50million. Other wise voices have been heard on the topic of abortion, including the Honourable Member for North East Somerset, Jacob Rees-Mogg. He said: ‘I am completely opposed to abortion. Life is sacrosanct and begins at the point of conception . . . abortion is morally indefensible.’ I was delighted to hear a politician stick to his guns and eloquently defend his principles and the sanctity of human life. I was hear-hearing all the way through the interview.

At any rate, why would the Church be interested in this anniversary? Why should Christians back the Pro-Life Alliance’s call for the tolling of bells? Well, let me have a swing at that googly.

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