If it’s a child, Stella, why is it OK to kill it?
by Will Jones, Faith and Politics:
Labour MP Stella Creasy is pregnant. She has suffered a number of miscarriages in the past, which she has spoken publicly about. On those occasions she has been clear that it is her ‘baby’ or her ‘child’ that has died.
Yet this is the MP who is behind the deplorable, anti-democratic effort to impose abortion on Northern Ireland, and who is campaigning for abortion up to 28 weeks without any restriction. Since she herself must recognise that abortion involves killing a baby or a child (otherwise how was it that her own miscarriages involved her baby or child dying?) we must conclude that she thinks it is morally acceptable to kill babies and children, just as long as they are still in the womb. But on what grounds could that possibly be acceptable? Babies delivered at 28 weeks have an 80-90 per cent chance of survival.
Scientifically we know that the unborn child from conception is a human being, a unique human individual at its earliest stages of development. It is not a potential life – it is alive. It is not a potential human being – it is a human being. And it is, as Stella says, a baby and a child.
Where Ms Creasy’s logic seems to fail her is that these babies and children, as human beings, have rights. Children have the right to the care of their parents, which presumably includes not being slaughtered by them, their current in utero status notwithstanding. And human beings have rights – the right to life and liberty most crucially.
UK law recognises these rights to some extent, which is why it is possible to be charged with child destruction when you are responsible for the death of an unborn child.
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