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Two British
Politicians to Introduce Abortion Counseling Amendments By Dave Andrusko
In what we can only hope is a successful effort, two British politicians are poised to introduce legislation that would prohibit organizations, such as the pro-abortion titans Marie Stopes International and British Pregnancy Advisory Service, from offering abortion counseling to pregnant women. “Nadine Dorries, a Conservative Party member of Parliament, and Frank Field, a former minister in Tony Blair’s Labor government, said that on March 31 they will introduce two amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill aimed at removing financial conflicts of interest in the provision of abortions,” writes Simon Caldwell for the Catholic News Service. “They say that it is an ‘inappropriate relationship’ when private abortion businesses offer both counseling and abortions because the businesses have a vested interest in procuring the abortions.” In a statement issued today, the two legislators talked about two amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill now working its way through Parliament. The first would be to ensure “every woman considering an abortion has a right to independent pregnancy counseling before being referred to an abortion provider.” The second was aimed at the pro-abortion Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. As we discussed last month, the Royal College prepared new guidelines on “The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion” that recommended women be told that abortion is safer than childbirth; that it produces no significant adverse psychological effects; and that “induced abortion is not associated with an increase in breast cancer." Dorries’ and Field’s second amendment “will attempt to take strip responsibility for drawing up the clinical guidelines on abortions from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists,” according to the Daily Mail. The authority to do so would be given to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. In a blog entry Dorries said the Royal College had “failed to uphold the principle of professionalism and ethical responsibility in the way it has behaved in the production of these guidelines.” She added, “Eleven members of the RCOG are abortion practitioners who have a financial interest in this.” There were 189,100 abortions in 2009. Part Three |
