Ann Furedi admits "agenda"
Ann Furedi, CEO of BPAS said in an article in The Huffington Post recently:
“Abortion may be an act of killing – but it kills a being that has no sense of life or death, and no awareness of itself as distinct from others,”
Precious Life shared this statement on facebook, commenting:
"Ann Furedi , CEO of BPAS knows abortion is killing, but still has an agenda to promote it up to birth anyway!"
In addition to this, what makes someone's lack of self-awareness any justification for someone else to kill them? Scott Klusendorf, US Pro-Life apologetic gives this example:
"Suppose you are in a terrible motorcycle accident that leaves you comatose for two years. During that time, you lack the immediately exercisable capacity for self-awareness and have no sense of yourself existing over time. Are you the same person even though your functional abilities have changed? Imagine further that when the two years are up, you emerge from the coma with no memory of your past life. Your wife and kids are strangers. You touch the hot stove and get burned. You must relearn everything from speaking to eating to working with your hands. In many ways, you are much like the standard fetus: You possess a basic capacity for self-awareness, rational thought, and language, but lack the immediate capacity to exercise these things. Like the fetus, all of your life experience and memories will be new. Through all of these changes, would you still be you? Could doctors have justifiably killed you during your extended sleep because you couldn’t immediately exercise your capacity for self-awareness or sentience? If our right to life is based on our current functional abilities, rather than our common human nature, it’s difficult to say why it would be wrong to kill you while you are comatose. Yet, clearly, it would be morally wrong to kill you in that state and the substance view can explain why: You never stopped being you through all of these changes because you have a human nature that grounds your identity through time and change. In short, humans are equal by nature not function."
Ann Furedi responded to our comment on Twitter, 'tweeting': "Too right I've an agenda: that all persons should have freedom of conscience, self-determination and bodily autonomy"
An abortion survivor, Paula, recently give her testimony about having an abortion, and the lack of counselling before it: "Inside I went to reception and was asked for my bank details and was told to take a seat. I was offered no counselling. It felt like a business transaction."
Ms Furedi, where is the freedom of bodily autonomy of the baby, whose body is fully formed by just 12 weeks, that is being pulled apart limb by limb? Where is the freedom of conscience for mothers like Paula, who are being denied real facts about abortion. In order to have so-called freedom of conscience, women need to be informed of all the facts surrounding abortion.