Why are we spending millions to promote abortion abroad?
by Philippa Taylor, The Conservative Woman:
For the past five years, the charity Marie Stopes International (MSI) has been given £163 million in UK taxpayers’ money to spend on abortions in developing countries. This money also went on helping to liberalise laws on abortion. No other country gives as much money to MSI than our own Department for International Development (DFID).
MSI is one of the main providers of abortion in England, but most of its business is to provide contraceptives and abortions in developing countries in order, it claims, to reduce the number of ‘unsafe abortions’ in developing countries and to reduce maternal mortality rates. In 2016, it said it had ‘averted 7.6 million unintended pregnancies’. (i.e. carried out 7.6 million abortions).
Not only is this flawed reasoning for increased abortion provision, we have to ask if MSI can be trusted to carry out ‘safe abortions’ across the globe.
MSI abortions in the UK
It is hard to find out facts and figures. Data collection is very poor on abortion follow-up in the UK. Even the RCOG acknowledges that there is ‘a lack of standardisation in reporting which hampers collection of accurate data.’ Private abortion providers do not record NHS numbers so health events cannot be linked to a prior abortion. In other words, many complications are missed off records and not collected by Government statistics, so we have no accurate figure of how many complications post-abortion there are nationally.
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