Weblog: 'Back-Alley Abortions' in the 21st Century
A British newspaper finds a late-term conspiracy between country's largest abortion provider and a Spanish clinic.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 10/01/2004 12:00AM
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If the government does in fact take action against BPAS—dropping its funding, for example, or even jailing the chief conspirators, that would be significant. Likewise, if the Spanish police raid the Clinica Ginemedex in Barcelona, it would be dramatic news. But the chief effect of the controversy will probably be in the hearts and minds of British (and possibly Spanish) citizens. The BPAS is claiming that it would be "morally reprehensible" not to send mothers overseas for abortions if they have potentially viable unborn children. That argument simply won't wash for anyone who has read the Telegraph's tale of callous and eager abortionists. The BPAS certainly appears to be crusading not for women, but for the death of children who could probably survive outside the womb.
And they keep crusading. Abortion-rights supporters say that the Telegraph exposé should mean relaxing, not extending, abortion limits in Britain. "It means women are not getting the services they need in Britain, which is regrettable," Abortion Rights director Anne Quesney told The Scotsman. "There should be a provision made in the law for women who need the services at a later stage."
But one of the major points of the Telegraph's reporting is that the reporter was never asked if she needed it, was never offered alternatives, was never told that late-term abortions are potentially very traumatic, and was never told that her baby might even be viable outside the womb. The reporter didn't need to abort her pregnancy, but at every opportunity she was encouraged to do so.
No doubt there are people who go to work for the abortion industry with a true, if misguided, desire to help women in difficult situations. But their faces are less and less the face of the industry. Instead, abortionists and their advocates are with increasing regularity showing the face of Molech.
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