The worth of disabled lives is weighed in the womb
by Lynn Murray, Artillery Row:
Sir Brian Souter’s comments about disability abortion are tragic but true.
We are all used to hearing passionate views about abortion but it seems a few eyebrows have been raised recently when hearing about a high-profile, multimillionaire transport tycoon’s comments on abortions where a baby has a disability.
Sir Brian Souter, co-founder of Stagecoach, was delivering a guest sermon at the evangelical Destiny Church in Glasgow when he compared late-term abortions on the basis of disability to the infamous biblical tyrant who ordered the killing of all male babies aged two or under in Bethlehem shortly after the birth of Jesus Christ.
Souter’s key point was that abortions of unborn children with minor disabilities, including conditions such as a cleft lip, are currently legal right up to birth and that is profoundly wrong in 21st-century Britain.
Is the comparison somewhat hyperbolic? Yes, but does it correspond to reality?
The abortion provider, British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), confidently declares in an article by The Times that “Mr Souter’s statement that at 39 weeks gestation, a woman could legally end a pregnancy due to a hare lip is simply untrue”. But is it?
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