Government does U-turn on allowing women to abort babies at home
The Department of Health says reported changes to the abortion law, that would allow women to abort their unborn children at home using abortion pills in response to coronavirus, are not going ahead.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson told The Independent: “This was published in error. There will be no changes to abortion regulations.”
On Monday a document published on the DHSC website stated that women would no longer need to go to a hospital or clinic in order to have a medical abortion. It also said consultations with a doctor could have taken place via video link or a telephone rather than face-to-face. But the DHSC has now confirmed that these changes will not be taking place.
Prescribing the abortion pill to women without first examining them can lead to serious consequences that injure or kill perfectly healthy women. Abortion is neither healthcare nor essential and when women ultimately experience complications from taking the abortion pill at home, they will have to be treated at already heavily burdened hospitals. The abortionists, meanwhile, won’t have to deal with any of the aftermath of at-home abortions, but will collect the money to irresponsibly hand out the pills and leave women to suffer any ill consequences alone.
The move was in response to a number of pro-abortion organisations who wrote to the health secretary urging him to amend the law during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak so women could carry out abortions at home.
The pro-abortion Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) has been campaigning for these DIY abortions for months, as part of a propaganda campaign to try and convince women that deadly abortion pills are safe and straightforward, when they are the exact opposite. Now the organisation are trying to exploit a national crisis to forward an abortion agenda and make an ideological change.
Bernadette Smyth of Precious Life welcomed the Government U-turn.
“Precious Life welcome the Government’s U-turn on allowing women to take deadly abortion pills at home. Every abortion ends the life of an unborn baby and poses dangers to women, both physical and psychological. Further, the evidence shows us that home abortions greatly increase the risks to women, with studies finding an increase in complications for early abortions induced at home.
“The whole message which governments, communities and families are trying to promote in the midst of this global pandemic is to ‘Stay Safe’, yet we are seeing pro-abortion organisations, lobby groups and politicians attempting to exploit this crisis to push a dangerous abortion agenda to endanger women and violently end more precious and vulnerable human life when the focus should be on protecting life.”
Mrs Smyth continued: “The RCOG have released guidance which calls abortion ‘essential’ but we know that ending the life of a child through the abortion methods of suffocation, poisoning or dismemberment is never essential. It is disgraceful for pro-abortion groups to claim that abortion is medically necessary at a time when every effort is being made to save human life, and at a time when the NHS is stretched to capacity offering life-saving healthcare to those who are sick and dying from this pandemic.
“It is vital that we unite against this radical and cruel abortion agenda and we conserve our core services for genuine health emergencies rather than seeing real healthcare sacrificed for unnecessary, life-ending elective procedures like abortion. To continue abortions during a national pandemic would be medically irresponsible. Abortions offer no health benefits to women and do not treat a disease process because pregnancy is not an illness or a disease.
Mrs Smyth concluded, “If we are to follow the ‘Stay Safe’ message, this involves recognising that nothing is more dangerous than abortion, a procedure designed to deliberately and violently end the life of a child in the womb. Abortions must be immediately suspended and abortion centres and clinics shut down to save the lives of women and unborn children across the world.”