BPAS - The quiz How well do you know the UK’s largest abortion provider? How many questions can you answer? Share and write in the comments how many answers you got right…. 1. Whose son “Turned his attention from the TV news on which we had watched an item on late abortion and, asked me: ‘Is that what you do… kill babies? Because that’s horrible.’” A/ Abagail Fitzgibbon B/ Clare Murphy C/ Ann Furedi D/ Diane Munday 2. What does the euphemism BPAS actually stand for? A/ Babies Pulled … [Read more...]
Marie Stopes – The Quiz
Marie Stopes - The quiz How many questions can you answer? Share and Write in the comments how many answers you got right… 1. Which twentieth century dictator did Marie Stopes (the person) send love letters to, advocating compulsory sterilisation for the ‘unfit’? A/ Benito Mussolini B/ General Franco C/ Adolf Hitler D/ Joseph Stalin 2. Which abortion centre had to temporarily stop all terminations, after a Care Quality Commission report found nearly 400 botched abortions in two … [Read more...]
Buffer Zones: the real story
Marie Stopes Ealing Woman dies in taxi after abortion 2012; staff convicted and then acquitted of manslaughter. (http://dailym.ai/28YXSSX) Doctor struck off the medical register for almost killing woman after botched abortion. Also performs laser surgery on women to improve their sex lives. (http://dailym.ai/2yfAQ9s) 21 ambulances arrive 2014-2016 to pick up women injured by abortion. Pro-abortion group Sister Supporter continually harass pro-lifers for 18 months and are rewarded by local … [Read more...]
The power of prayer and relationships
Prayer allows us to enter into communion and friendship with others. Our hearts realise what happens even if our heads do not. Gregory of Nyssa in the fourth century said that if people prayed seriously they would be reconciled. A frightening part of the Lords’ prayer is asking God to look on us as we look on other people: to forgive us as we forgive others. When we pray, we are taken to heaven. We have access to Christ through the father. We receive a share of God’s power. We are going to be … [Read more...]
What Dispatches failed to report
On 5 October 2016, Channel 4 published a deeply misleading and biased supposedly undercover investigation into “Britain’s Abortion Extremists.” The programme contained a variety of factual errors and looked like a propaganda piece for BPAS’s Buffer Zone “Back Off” Campaign to introduce buffer zones outside of abortion centres. As the programme was filmed in an undercover manner designed to paint pro-lifers in the most negative light, there was not the opportunity to communicate a pro-life … [Read more...]
Tokophobia: an unreasoning fear of childbirth
Tokophobia is a fear of pregnancy or childbirth. It is also known as “maleusiophobia” from the Greek “maieusis” literally eating “deliver of a woman in childbirth.” Often the fear of childbirth motivates a request for an election caesarean section. Tokophobia can also be associated with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. A morbid fear of childbirth is sometimes so profound it can lead to a complete avoidance of pregnancy, event though many sufferers would love children. Dame Helen … [Read more...]
How entrepreneurial activity can help the pro-life movement to flourish
Ending abortion involves changing hearts and minds. In countries where pro-abortion laws and culture are firmly rooted, the onus is on pro-lifers to have the initiative to change the status quo. A roadmap is needed to take society from where it is, to where it needs to go. People with vision, talent and abilities are needed to bring to life their ideas of how to transition from a culture of death to a culture of life. We need people to bring into action projects, ministries and organisations … [Read more...]
How a Nun’s convent became a late term abortion centre
A large house in Richmond, London was owned by a Roman Catholic religious order in the 1960s to board students from St. Mary’s College in Strawberry Hill. In the 1960s the clinic was a hostel run by Catholic nuns Daughters of Mary Immaculate. Holy Masses and Eucharistic Adoration took place in this building. Today they perform around 7400 abortions a year including 320 abortions on babies over 20 weeks gestation. How did a religious order come to sell a property to become the scene of … [Read more...]
Sex education and sexual behaviour
Yesterday I attended an excellent talk by Professor David Paton on sex education. In the talk he showed how high rates of teenage pregnancy and abortion have fallen significantly since 2008 despite significant public funding cuts of sex education from 2009 (there was a huge investment from 1999-2009). Sex and relationships education (SRE) is not statutory as only LA secondary schools have to provide it. Parents have the right to opt-out and other schools can have a broad and balanced … [Read more...]
Why the existence of abortion providers is bad for women’s health
Many pro-abortion advocates would argue that decriminalising abortion helps to make abortion safe, legal and rare. Joseph Shaw has commented on some of the aspects of Tina Beattie’s letter to the Polish Bishops urging them to reconsider campaigning for the total criminalisation of abortion in Poland. It is important to remember the benefits of the criminalisation of abortion. The legal existence of the abortion industry creates a situation of permanent pressure for the easing of restrictions … [Read more...]