Last Friday a judge ordered that a woman
here in the UK, a mother with a learning disability,
who is 22 weeks pregnant, must be forced to
abort her child against her will.
The woman’s doctors claimed that a forced
late-term abortion was in her best interest.
This was despite the fact that the woman herself
wanted her child and the woman’s mother,
a former midwife, had offered to raise her grandchild and was against the forced abortion
happening.
What a disgusting betrayal of the justice
system and betrayal of the most vulnerable
in our society!
Yesterday, we heard the good news that the
judge’s horrific, ‘anti-choice’ ruling
had been overturned and the forced abortion
was no longer going to go ahead.
Yesterday, a 22-week old baby was spared from
abortion. An innocent life was saved! A forced abortion
was stopped.
However, what is SHOCKING is that this was
ever allowed to happen in the first place.
The fact that the state can FORCE a late-term
abortion on a woman who did not want one is
not the kind of state we want to live in.
A forced late-term abortion would have been
an irreversible trauma on the mother and would
have ended the life of the baby that had been
growing inside her womb for almost six months.
A baby that could have survived outside the
womb.
A fully formed baby that today will be kicking,
moving, and hearing his or her’s mother’s
voice.
We are here today to stand with this women.
We stand with her baby. We stand with her
family. We stand with every woman in the UK
who has been forced by a hospital to abort
their baby.
Unfortunately, it likely that this is not
a one-off case.
We are also therefore here today to call on
the Department of Health to urgently reveal
how many women have been forced by a hospital
to have an abortion against their will in
the UK.
The Government must ensure no women and family
will ever have to go through this again.
We are here today to send a clear message
to the Government.
This must never happen again.
