At first I didn’t take it seriously. I had heard the news that a few amendments to the Crime and Policing bill were coming to the UK Parliament to in effect allow abortion on demand as much as birth. And I assumed that this was the work of the novel extremists who think that any woman needs to be allowed to kill her own child as much as birth. I assumed that such an extreme measure could be overwhelmingly rejected. But I used to be improper – after which some.
This week MPs voted by 379 to 137 for an amendment tabled by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi which in effect permits abortion on demand as much as full term i.e. up to date of and even during birth.
Although on paper abortion remains to be not legal, nobody might be prosecuted for taking the lifetime of their very own baby – at any stage. In theory any medical skilled who assists a lady in having such an abortion might be liable to prosecution – even though it is nearly inconceivable to assume any situation during which criminal proceedings might be undertaken.
There were actually three amendments before parliament. One from Stella Creasey, one other Labour MP, who desired to abandon all abortion laws under the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act and enshrine abortion as a human right. This was actually backed by 108 MPs but even the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) were against it. So, it was withdrawn.
But note that this was because BPAS said this was not the most effective solution to achieve “generational change”. In other words, let’s do that one salami slice at a time. It is inevitable that this too will come. And it won’t stop there. After all, using the identical logic we could argue that killing an unwanted baby sooner or later out of the womb can also be healthcare and a part of ‘reproductive health care’.
I fear there’ll soon come a day when MPs are tweeting a few latest infanticide act (doubtless renamed something more palatable like ‘the infant care act’) with a blurb like: “No one should ever face prosecution for killing their one-week-old baby. This could be an important step for girls’s rights and reproductive justice.”
A 3rd amendment from the Conservative Shadow Health Minister, Dr Caroline Johnson, was attempting to limit the harm of abortion through the pills by post service by reinstating the requirement that a pregnant woman have an in-person medical consultation before getting an abortion. This was rejected by 397 to 117.
Remember the times once we were told abortions needed to be legal to be able to prevent backstreet abortions and to make sure the mother got proper medical care? That was apparently just an excuse, because now MPs think a lady should have the ability to have an abortion in her own residence with none medical care or assessment.
Why has this happened? The big picture is that the UK is in sharp decline, and our legislators represent that decline. They lack any significant moral compass or mental capability to significantly think through this stuff. Consider this – the most important change in abortion law for 60 years they usually took 46 minutes to ‘debate’ it. These are individuals with the eye span of a gnat. Governed entirely by soundbites, emotive stories and the morality of a bot, it’s little wonder that they’ve convinced themselves that killing viable babies within the womb is all about ‘healthcare’ and ‘reproductive rights’. They are much like the politicians who in the course of the anti-slavery debate argued that slavery was about ‘economic rights’.
The stupidity is breathtaking. I saw the commentator Paul Mason tweet that this Bill could be a blow for misogynists, clearly oblivious to the indisputable fact that the Bill now allows sex-selective abortion. Is there anything more misogynistic than killing a baby girl simply because she is a woman?
The dishonesty and lies are also astonishing. For example, Dr Sonia Adesara lied to Julia Hartley-Brewer on her show when she stated “we’re not changing what a lady is allowed to do” when that’s precisely what the Bill is doing.
Others have suggested that this shouldn’t be making abortion legal and subsequently nothing has really modified. But they’re sophists fiddling with words to be able to justify taking lives. If breaking into my house shouldn’t be illegal, you then will be happy to interrupt into my house since you will not be doing anything illegal while you accomplish that.
Where does this shocking vote leave us? The culture of death within the UK is more deeply engrained than I believed. For individuals who claim to be humanists we appear to like killing humans rather a lot.
As regards the Church it should with one voice be standing up and declaring that we are going to not go down the route of Baal or Molech, sacrificing our kids to the idols of the contemporary West. We must speak out with a prophetic voice against this evil and warn, with tears in our eyes, of the judgement to return. One day these MPs will stand before a greater court than the Supreme Court, and a better judge than the electorate.
Meanwhile allow us to weep and mourn for today’s post-Christian, pagan Britain. A Britain where you possibly can get sent to jail for a tweet but kill your personal baby the day before she is born. A Britain where praying near an abortion centre is illegitimate but killing a baby as much as birth is legal. A Britain where God is mocked, his word abused, and humans destroyed. I can consider no higher response than that of the Psalmist in Psalm 119:136: “Streams of tears flow from my eyes, to your law shouldn’t be obeyed.”
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