Nothing to celebrate: 50 years of abortion in Britain
by Philippa Taylor, MercatorNet:
Last Friday marked 50 years since the passing of the UK’s Abortion Act, 1967, which permitted abortion on very wide grounds. In these last five decades nearly 9 million unborn babies have been aborted in England, Scotland and Wales.
That figure has, of course, also impacted the lives of 9 million women, some of whom are celebrating this anniversary of the Act while many will instead remember and regret their abortion(s) and the harm each one brings to both mother and child.
While I strongly believe there are two victims for every abortion, for now I deliberately focus on the unborn victims, not the women, and the almost incomprehensible scale of destruction of innocent lives.
Nine million lives lost is a truly staggering figure.
- It is more than all the pupils currently at in schools in England
- It is more than the whole population of Austria
- It is more than the population of New York
- It is more than the combined population of the 22 largest cities in the UK after London
- It is more than 10% of the entire UK population
Incredibly, that number of lives lost is higher than the combined populations of Scotland and Wales (see also here).
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