PSNI MUST ENSURE BPAS ARE NOT COVERING UP A CRIME
In response to the British Pregnancy Advisory Service extending a ‘helpline’ to women in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland who have taken abortion pills, Bernadette Smyth, the director of Precious Life, the leading pro-life group in Northern Ireland, stated:
“Women and unborn children must be protected from the likes of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Marie Stopes International, and pro-abortion activists who sell illegal abortion drugs online, and instruct women via hotlines to buy and use these deadly abortion drugs. The aim of their game is to rake in as much money as they can, even if that means exploiting vulnerable women and inciting them to break the law. That is why we expect the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) to intervene if a woman from Northern Ireland were to contact the BPAS helpline after having an abortion. It is in the interests of justice that the PSNI ensure that BPAS are not covering up a crime.”
“It must be reiterated that abortion drugs are not healthcare. Research has shown, time and time again, that these abortion drugs, mifepristone and misoprostol, also endanger women’s lives.
“An Indian study, published in the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research in 2015, revealed that since abortion drugs were legalised in India in 2002, supposedly restricting the ‘prescription’ of those drugs to ‘medical practitioners’, over-the-counter sale and self-administration of the abortion drugs has become “rampant throughout the country” and that “life threatening complications like excessive haemorrhage, sepsis and deaths” are not uncommon in women taking these drugs.
“Women facing a crisis pregnancy do not need BPAS or Marie Stopes or illegal abortion websites. Rather, they need pro-woman organisations that actually care about them and have their best interests at heart. Pro-woman organisations like Stanton Healthcare Belfast are here to help women and to provide the care and support they need.”