by Gavin Ashenden
The House of Lords, the failure of the Anglican bishops, and Britain’s surrender to the culture of death
Infanticide
On the 18th of March, in the fourth week of Lent, the House of Lords, the senior chamber of this country’s parliamentary legislature, did something so scandalous, so obscene, so beyond comprehension that it is difficult to find words to describe and respond to it.
It legislated for infanticide.
Whatever arguments may exist about when life beings (though for the Catholic, only too obviously at the moment of conception) a baby at full term in the womb waiting to be born is a child; and passing legislation to destroy that child on one side of the birth canal rather than the other, is murder.
Under the influence of the extreme left political agenda and the feminism that informs it, the Lords’ legitimised infanticide. It decriminalised abortion up to the very second of birth.
The temptation is of course to reach for the most powerful combination of words available to us to express our distress, doubt, and rage, but we need to do more than that. We need to set this act in a framework that demonstrates the extent of its seriousness beyond, if one can even say such a thing, merely the fact that our state permits (and by permitting one could argue promoting) the killing of children.
What has Christianity to offer as an analysis of the strategy?