My religious beliefs are separate to my morals. I am not a Bible-basher, nor am I sewn into the hem of the village priest's cassock, if that's what my stand seems to suggest. I believe that abortion is wrong, but I do know that there are people who believe that it's not wrong. As long as these people retain their mentality, there will be a demand for abortion, and I cannot change that. It's easy to draw parallels with the Prohibition in America, for example. The Prohibition ended up creating more problems than it sought to solve, the rise of the Mafia included. But slowly a lot of people are realising: legalising abortion creates more problems than it seeks to solve. A few decades ago, when the pro-abortion campaign was in full-swing, a main message was that legalising abortion would solve the problem with backstreet abortions which endanger the life of a mother. Recently, the people who were at the forefront of the campaign have admitted that they faked many of the death rates to scare people into speedy legislation. Some of these people have even changed their stance, and there were some articles about them in the British papers recently.
Legislation did not solve the problem of backstreet abortions. Illegal abortions are still being conducted on women who are past the 24-week gestation limit. Also, It is legal to chop an 18-week old baby to pieces inside the mother's womb in America, England, and many other countries. Through science, we know that at this stage a baby has internal organs, lungs, a spinal cord, and a nervous system. It's entire body is sensitive to touch. The digestive system is complete. The heart beats regularly and it has it's own blood type which may be completely different to it's mother. It can suck it's thumb. It moves and feels pain. Four hundred (legal) late abortions per day are carried out in the US, and eighty in the UK.
| You have to bear in mind that [Britain is a] very secular country so we deal mainly in science rather than religion or emotion when it comes to such matters. Of course our attitude differs from America with its 'religious right'. This does not make us amoral. |
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Morality has told you that killing a baby is wrong, now science is telling you.
On an American TV show, Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, MD and Co-Founder of National Abortion Right Action League, and also director of the America's largest abortion clinic for 2 years, spoke about this. He is ultimately responsible for 75,000 abortions. "But over the past 10 years, I've changed my mind on the acceptability of abortions, owing to the immense technological advances which have been made in the field of obstetrics and fetology, Advances such as ultra sound imaging, fetal heart monitoring, and fetoscophy which have allowed us now to perceive, without question, the unmistakable humanity of the unborn child."
| Don't accidentally get a woman pregnant then. Others may not share those beliefs so why should you be able to influence their decision? |
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Stick my head in the sand, in other words. People make a fundamental mistake when they use the use the expression 'I have a right to an opinion.' There's no such thing as a
right to an opinion. What you do have is a duty to listen to other peoples' opinions, and a right to express your opinion responsibly.
| What does euphemism have to do with abortion or morality? |
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Amorality is present
in some institutions in both countries: in America a lot of euphemism is used to detatch people from reality. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service is more outgoing with its statements. Ann Furedi, the service’s chief executive, even had the gall to say that it is "morally reprehensible" to deny a woman an abortion.
To quote Paul Tully, from the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, "Now abortion promoters are trying to justify the promotion of illegal overseas abortion by claiming that abortion tourism is not illegal. They have taken some trouble to make sure the service was available, they just failed to check whether it was lawful. This is hypocrisy on hypocrisy.
“They appear to have no moral sense and no sense of how disgraceful their excuses appear to other people.
“The question many will ask is: do BPAS and the Spanish abortionists care at all about the women involved? Late-term abortions are known to be a high risk for the mother. Yet no one appears to be taking responsibility for aftercare.”
Quoting from the Times Online:
"[BPAS] carries out around 2,000 abortions at between 20 to 24 weeks’ gestation each year, the majority of all abortions at that stage. In July Professor Stuart Campbell’s publication of 3-D moving images of a 12-week-old foetus prompted a surge of support among MPs for a review of the current 24-week limit, which was reduced from 28 weeks in 1990."