World: abortion round-up
European Centre for Law and Justice
New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister, Winston Peters, who was elected on a pro-life vote in the last general election, voted against an amendment requiring that pain relief be given to babies being aborted between 20 weeks and birth.
The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, joined 80 other politicians and Peters in voting against a requirement to give medical help to babies born alive after ‘failed’ abortions.
Women must know the truth
Following publication of new research into the links between abortion and breast cancer, UK anti-abortion agencies are demanding that women should be told about the serious health risks before they terminate their pregnancies.
Breast cancer is now the commonest form of cancer in the UK. Around 30,000* women are diagnosed with the disease in England and Wales each year. One in nine women will develop breast cancer at some time in their lives.
Abortion matters
The issue of abortion will always be close to the hearts of us as evangelical Christians – and many others of course too.
How can it not be? The slaughter of so many millions of unborn children in the West in the last few decades is one of the great blind spots of our decaying culture. (Of course, there are always situations – for example rape, incest and imminent danger to a mother’s life – where we cannot be so black and white, but they should not distract us from the wider tragedy where no such contingencies apply.)