Is it OK if they are disabled?

A harrowing article by Fraser Nelson in the Spectator (What all MPs should read before voting on the abortion time limit) gives the text of a Sun column featuring a letter from a nurse who was involved in abortion. The letter describes a 24 week abortion in which the nurse cut the umbilical cord and then watched the baby gasping for breath for 10 minutes on the side of a sink before he died. The reason for the abortion was that the mother's boyfriend had a son who might be jealous of a new baby.

The article says that "Her misgivings are reserved solely for those who use termination as a form of contraception." So is it OK to allow "severely disabled" babies to die gasping for breath on the side of a sink?

I hope the article does indeed make some MPs think about what is going on in our supposedly civilised society but I pray that the presumption "It's OK if they are disabled" can be seen for what it is.

John Smeaton has warned of the most important danger in the parliamentary debate on abortion: MPs’ amendments will increase access to abortion throughout pregnancy

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