The Abortion Money Machine Rolls Out the Ads in the UK
“One of the UK’s largest abortion providers has announced that the country’s first ever abortion advert is to be screened on national television later this month.”1
This will be done by “leading abortion provider Marie Stopes International…which earned around £60 million from abortions and other sexual health and reproductive services in 2008, claim the campaign will help women to make a more informed choice about their pregnancies and sexual health” and which is “responsible for one in three abortions performed in England and Wales” in 2008 AD 215,975 abortions were performed in the UK.
Mike Judge (Head of Communications at The Christian Institute) stated:
Given that one in five British pregnancies ends in an abortion, it is hard to imagine that women are in the dark about abortion services…Will the ad mention the medical risks of abortion – like financial services have to mention financial risks when advertising? Will pro-life pregnancy counselling services be permitted to advertise? Will this lead to a tit-for-tat ad war on abortion?
Is the planned advertizing of abortion by the multimillion dollar (or pound) money machine timely?
Last month it was revealed that a baby boy who survived a botched abortion at 22 weeks was wrapped in a sheet and left to die by staff at the Rossano Calabro hospital in Italy. But the day after the abortion the baby boy, who still had his umbilical cord attached, was discovered moving and breathing by a Roman Catholic priest. He was taken to another hospital where he died the next day.
Here are some stats:
Abortion numbers in the UK are the highest in Europe with 219,336 terminations taking place in one year according to a new study. Britain also has the highest number of abortions for girls under 20 with 48,150 of the abortions falling into this age group.
These figures, released by the Institute for Family Policies, are the latest statistics available from the European Union for the year 2007. Britain now ranks fifth in the world for the number of abortions performed, behind only Russia, the US, India and Japan.The number of abortions performed in the EU during 2007 was equivalent to the combined populations of the EU’s ten smallest states with Britain, France and Romania accounting for half of the terminations [41.9 girls per 1,000 aged 15 to 17 became pregnant in 2007]…
the Labour Government’s Teenage Pregnancy Strategy…focuses on sex education and the promotion of contraception. The strategy, which has so far cost over £300 million…
Phyllis Bowman, Campaign Director of Right to Life said: “The Government is not so much running a Teenage Pregnancy Strategy as a Teenage Abortion Strategy.
“Conceptions are not going down and abortion is going up, exactly the reverse of what was supposed to happen.”…David Paton, Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School, has also referred to the strategy as “absolutely disastrous”…Prof Paton pointed to statistical evidence showing that since the strategy began diagnoses of sexually transmitted infections have increased, while the rate of decline in pregnancy rates has slowed.2
For more on abortion please see the following:
Abortion and Homosexual Marriage – The Faulty Correlation
Richard Dawkins – On Abortion, Tadpoles, Rape, Cows, Murder and Sheep
Abortion and the Intolerance of the Pseudo-Tolerant
George Tiller, Abortionist Murders, and the Richard Dawkins Correlation