Article captures the graphic horror involved in a middle term abortion

‘The fact that very few doctors are prepared to carry out abortions after 15 weeks is, I believe, a reflection of the horrifying nature of such procedures.’

Ben Lowry’s Saturday 20th March editorial captures the graphic horror involved in middle term abortion (see link below).

‘The Facts-Human Development’ section of the CBR (Campaign for Bioethical Reform) website is illuminating.

The living human foetus at nine weeks from conception is an embodied member of the human species.

The ‘just a clump of cells’ myth has justified a silent genocide.

Factors like poverty, and lack of housing, may have forced some UK women to reluctantly take abortion pills. A recent Guardian report drew attention to a much higher abortion rate in poorer women.

John Calvin wrote: ‘If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house than in a field, because a man’s house is his place of most secure refuge, it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a foetus in the womb before it has come to light.’

Is chemical abortion a disgusting and dehumanising form of domestic violence?

Dr James Hardy, Belfast BT5

• Ben Lowry Mar 20: MLAs lost control of abortion by rejecting modest law reform

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