Abortion: the statistical lie

The article below in the Spring of 1984 was commenting on the so called "statistical argument" for abortion which alleges that statistics show that abortion is always safer for the mother than continuing a pregnancy.  An abortion promoting charity still alleges on its website as a "fact" that abortion is "safer than pregnancy and childbirth".

Professor Glanville Williams QC was banging the same drum in the 1980s (and for many years before that) and ALDU decided to respond and expose the nonsensical arguments that Professor Williams was propounding.  Professor Glanville Williams, who died in 1997, was an extremely well known and eminent lawyer in his day.  He wrote many influential books, in particular books intended to teach people about the law.  This gave him the opportunity to expound his personal beliefs which was important to him for he was a prominent and active member of the Eugenics Society, President of the Abortion Law Reform Association and one of the principal authors of the Abortion Act.  The views which he expressed in his legal textbooks, on this subject, were not therefore disinterested.  He wanted abortion to be freely available and almost any old argument would do to reach that end.

Abortion - Arguing the Pro-life Case

In order to argue agains supporters of abortion, it is first necessary to understand what they believe and how their ideas influence their actions.  There is no point in us pro-lifers constructing arguments to counter what we believe that pro-abortionists think or even what we believe that they should think.  We have to meet pro-abortionists where they are, not where we think they should be.

Support pro-life pregnancy advice clinics.

There has been a recent smear campaign carried out against so called pro-life Crisis Pregnancy Centres (CPC) in the UK.  Undercover journalists from the Daily Telegraph visited 33 CPCs, sometimes visiting the same CPC as often as 4 times.  At each visit the journalists claimed to be pregnant and to be seeking help, neither of which claims were true.  In their Report they claim that pro-life counsellors gave incorrect and incomplete information - the pot calling the kettle black perhaps. 

Reminder to abortionists. Obey the law!

Over 32 years ago, the then Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Professor Gareth Crompton, wrote to doctors in Wales reminding them not to carry out illegal abortions - just in case they might forget.  We wrote about this remarkable instruction sent to people who might be expected to understand that they are supposed to act legally in Spring 1982 in our Newsletter number 13.

Sound familiar?

Rule of Law and Abortion

We have considered in previous blogs here and here the way in which the Rule of Law is ignored, so far as abortion practice is concerned.  Ignoring the law is a tactic that has been used by protagonists of abortion throughout the world.  The situation in the UK is no different from that in the rest of the world in this respect.  Below is an article taken from ALDU's Newsletter published in the Winter of 1979/80, which considers the position of abortion practice at that time in relation to the Rule of Law. 

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