The head of the
British Pregnancy Advisory Service, Ann
Furedi, has boldly declared that abortion is simply another form of birth
control and should be as freely available as other forms of contraception.
Ann who's the CEO of Britain's biggest abortion clinic chain, argued that
there is no moral difference between decisions on a termination and whether to
get married or divorced. And there is nothing morally wrong with destroying a
foetus because "it kills a being that has no sense of life or death",
she said.
Dailymail reports
that Mrs Furedi's call for abortion to be made as easily available as condoms
comes in a book to be published next month, arguing that it is 'a travesty of
our freedom' for terminations to be regulated by criminal law.
Under the 1967
Abortion Act, abortion is legal if two doctors agree that continuing with a
pregnancy involves a greater risk to the health of the woman, or her existing
children, than having a termination.
Mrs Furedi, 55,
argued that at a time when many women are expected both to raise children and
earn money it is wrong to put any restrictions on their freedom to use abortion
to end an unwanted pregnancy. In her book, 'The Moral Case for Abortion,' she
said:
"It is a safe, effective means of birth control that can be
subject to the same clinical governance and regulatory requirements as other
treatments. The clinical risks of early abortion are not significantly
higher than those of contraception, so why should it matter morally or legally
if a woman chooses to practise birth control through this method instead of
another?
"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. Women make moral
choices all the time. An abortion may be a difficult choice that a woman would
rather not make. But this is no different than many decisions we make and women
are no less competent to make pregnancy choices than they are to make other
life-changing decisions, such as whether or not to marry, or whether or not to
divorce."
How can she make such comment?
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