The Daily Mail ran a report yesterday:
More than 100 teenage girls a month have multiple abortions. The statistics, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act make depressing reading. Apparently, Simon Blake, the chief executive of the Brook, said that they have "clearly been failed by our education and health systems." Well, yes. And reading the comments from Government officials, it seems they will continue to be so failed. A Department of Health spokesman said:
"Government is determined to reduce the demand for abortions by improving access to contraception."
Keep repeating that in a Dalek voice:
Government is determined to reduce the demand for abortions by improving access to contraception.
Government is determined to reduce the demand for abortions by improving access to contraception.
Government is determined to reduce the demand for abortions by improving access to contraception.
[1967... 1977... 1987... 1997... 2007...]
Government is determined to reduce the demand for abortions by improving access to contraception.
And if this approach which condones and promotes promiscuity with the false promise of "safe sex" contines to fail dismally as it has over the lifetime of these poor teenagers, use the backstop:
Exterminate!
Exterminate!
Exterminate!
Never mind the girls and women whose lives are blighted as the second victims of this utterly discredited policy.
The Daily Mail ran a report yesterday: More than 100 teenage girls a month have multiple abortions. The statistics, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act make depressing reading. Apparently, Simon Blake, the chief executive of the Brook, said that they have "clearly been failed by our education and health systems." Well, yes. And reading the comments from Government officials, it seems they will continue to be so failed. A Department of Health spokesman said:
3 comments:
Well put Fr Tim. The Dalek voiceover makes the policy sound even more sinister than it already is. I just cannot understand why no-one out there in the secular world can see things clearly.
More condoms, more contraception (at tax payers expense - why? when you have to pay for all other prescriptions that are actually an illness which pregnancy is NOT - that's another rant - sorry!), more sex education is the Government line - furiously fanned by IPPF, Marie Stopes and others.
40 years surely has got to be a point where IF IT AIN'T WORKED TRY SOMETHING ELSE!!!!
Oh no, the thinking goes something like 'if the fire is raging out of control pour more b****** petrol over it'!!!!!!
If I were Prime Minister .......
Sigh...I was going to say that I'm thankful to be an American when I read stories like that, but of course I realized that we're really not in much better shape. Certainly as a Californian I'm not much better off (1/4 of all abortions in the US take place in CA, 1000 of the daily 4000 slaughtered in the US.). If President Bush can get one more pro-life justice on the Supreme Court, we could possibly overturn Roe v. Wade and (in all likelihood) the question would be handed over to the state governments, which would decide individually whether or not to keep abortion legal. A large chunk of the country would probably outlaw it if the states could decide (much of the Southeast, Texas, much of the Midwest). Now that the Democrats run the Senate, it will be much tougher for Bush to get a good Justice through...you pray for us Yanks and we'll pray for you Brits!
It is difficult to get an accurate take on the difference between the US and the UK on issues like this. I think it is true to say that England especially - and particularly London is much more secular. We wouldn't have whole areas of the country that could vote pro-life. Sadly, we are not winning the battle to change public opinion. But I think that sometimes the extremes are greater in the US.
Certainly, let us pray for one another.
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