We've discussed many times in this forum and in National Right to Life News this month's 40th anniversary of the enactment of Great Britain's 1967 Abortion Act and the real possibility that some changes will be adopted. Alas, even though abortion is already legal on demand through 24 weeks (and far beyond that when the baby is "disabled"), the only change pro-abortionists seek is to make it even easier to obtain "early" abortions. Approximately 200,000 babies are lost to abortion each year in Britain.

However, there is a rising chorus calling for stricter limitations on abortion. It is very significant that it is not pro-lifers alone who are advocating an earlier time limit. One famous abortionist--Stuart Campbell--wants the limits for "social abortions" set at 20 weeks. Another--Dr Vincent Argent -- wants the upper limit set at 16.

Prof. Campbell is familiar to TN&V readers. We have written about the incredible 3-D ultrasounds he has produced. The unborn's behavior uncannily mimic's that of a newborn--facial expressions in response to external stimuli, sucking their thumbs, making breathing movements--up to and including "walking" in the womb.

Dr. Argent works for Britain's largest abortion "provider," the British Pregnancy Advisory Service. He told the Daily Mail that General Practitioners "were routinely breaking the law by signing abortion consent forms without seeing or examining patients--or even after the procedure had been performed." He wants the upper limit set at 16 weeks.

Enter Britain's Channel Four, famous for its investigative reporting. "Abortion: What We Need to Know," aired on the "Dispatches" segment October 17. At the moment the only video I can find that is easily accessible is an eight minute, 15 second excerpt found at http://youtube.com/watch?v=rP6o4BIZMt0.

Be forewarned. An abortion clinic allowed the film crew that accompanied Dispatches' reporter Deborah Davies to film an abortion, but not see the aborted baby. Davies filled the gap with pictures she said were provided by Americans.

The bloody remains of an "early" abortion and a baby more advanced in age are shown. It is very, very rough going and, as always, I averted my eyes.

As Davies keenly observes, the abortionist, Dr. John  Spencer, is "an extremely calm, softly spoken man, which somehow makes his words all the more devastating."  Spencer is one of the few abortionists willing to do abortions up to the legal limit. His altogether clinical language and almost languid speaking voice just sends chills up and down your spine.

Much of what is shown in "Abortion: What We Need to Know" Davis discussed in a piece that ran in the Daily Mail October 12. (www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=487377&in_page_id=1879&ICO=FEMAIL&ICL=TOPART)

Tomorrow we'll talk more about what Davies found, and how debates over fetal pain and fetal viability are shaking up a debate over abortion which Parliament has not conducted since 1990.

Please take a moment to read Part Two where we review the comments of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg over the weekend in light of what we have just discussed.

Please send your comments or questions to Dave Andrusko at daveandrusko@hotmail.com.

Part Two