One in five abortion clinics breaking the law...
Blogged by James Preece on 26th March 2012
To quote Mark Shea - it turns out that if you are willing to murder babies, you may be willing to *gasp* break the law...
Up to one in five abortion clinics is suspected of breaking the law and faces a police inquiry following an official investigation ordered by the Health Secretary, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.
The regulator conducted a series of unannounced raids on every clinic offering abortions this week and found that a “shocking” number may be breaking the law.
The Daily Telegraph understands that more than 250 private and NHS clinics were visited and more than 50 were “not in compliance” with the law or regulations. Doctors were regularly falsifying consent forms and patients were not receiving acceptable levels of advice and counselling in many clinics, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) discovered.
Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, said he was “shocked” by the findings of the CQC’s audit and was preparing to report doctors and organisations to the police. Many clinics may be stripped of the licences that allow them to offer abortions.
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Meanwhile the clowns at Liberal Conspiracy demonstrate how out of touch with the rest of the world they are...
The ‘two doctor rule’ was nothing more than a means of covering a doctor’s arse if they did perform an abortion and had nothing whatsoever to do with providing any kind of ‘safeguards’ to women.
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If, as is being alleged, some doctors have been pre-signing their ‘second signature’ on abortion consent forms it only because they recognise the ‘two doctor rule’ for what it is – an archaic medico-legal fiction which serves no useful purpose.
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The two doctor requirement isn't an archaic throw back, it's there because the abortion laws in this country match the views of the vast majority of the population - that abortion is a bad thing that shouldn't be done except in very specific circumstances. Abortion is not legal in the UK unless certain criteria are met.
Only a small minority of radical lefty nutters think abortion should be allowed on demand for any reason at all. Except sexism of course... kill your baby because she has downs syndrome (equal rights for the disabled? it will never work!) but for goodness sake don't kill your baby because she's a girl.
Reader Comments
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Salisbury John said...
The words of the 17th century religious poet Thomas Traherne seem very appropriate for these dark times:
"The sharpest trials are the finest furbishing,
The most tempestuous weather is the best seed-time.
A Christian is an oak flourishing in winter."
But if we want our children and grandchildren to not only resist but prevail over this culture of death then parents, grandparents and all those with responsibility in assiting them with the moral formation of young ones and adolescents should heed the warning of Blessed John Paul II in paragraph 110 of Familiaris Consortio;
"..families should grow in awareness of being "protagonists" of what is known as "family politics" and assume responsibility for transforming society; otherwise families will be the first victims of the evils that they have done no more than note with indifference."
God preserve us and protect us from noting the evils of which James so eloquently reminds us with nothing more than indifference, which is the opposite of love.
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Mike Carroll said...
The old adage is true..
... It is a baby if you want it and it is a ball of cells if you do not.
A pregnant woman who wishes to keep her baby never looks on her baby as a ball of cells.
The bottom line is that any one who works for or in an abortion clinic is a murderer or at the very least is aiding and abetting murder.
The good news here is we are at last hopefully going to see some people locked up for it.
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epsilon said...
Maybe we should be promoting this little app on pregnancy:
http://thesmilesfactory.com/The_Smiles_Factory/The_Smiles_Factory.html
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New Friend said...
Breaking the law is breaking the law, whatever law is involved. Those who do must be punished.
Those who stay within the law are NOT murderers or aiding and abetting them. They might be offending you, but that is very different.
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Salisbury John said...
Mike didn't say they were 'legally' guilty of muder or murderes ....his meaning is moral and spiritual. Just because something is legal doesn't make it morally right...[even though you continually argue that it does] remember slavery? Long before Christianity came along abortion was universally accepted as equivalent to infanticide [despite pagan sacrificial killings] why? well because it's against the law of nature - yes that's right the law of nature...wait a minute.....O yeah - natural law!
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New Friend said...
John
Laws apply to all of us. Morality is personal. To make an unqualified statement that "abortion = murder" is simply inaccurate. It is your opinion, and that is all it is.
I have some objections to things which are legal, which you might describe as moral objections. I would only ever describe them as my opinions.
The law of nature is not the "natural law" I hear from so many Catholics. They hide their religious views under that cloak. If they restricted "natural law" to that which was agreed by everyone as being common sense, then there would be no problem.
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Mark Dobson said...
Is it inaccurate to make an unqualified statement that rape is bad? Or is that just a personal opinion?
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New Friend said...
Mark
Rape is, because the of the overwelming shared opinions of society, illegal. It is not something controversial. It is only when you use a descriptive term (like murder) that everyone recognises as an illegal act, to describe something which is actually lawful that it needs to be qualified. Good or bad are relative terms, not that you will ever accept that. Black is black, and white is white, but there are many shades of grey in between and sweeping statements rarely inform.
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Mark Dobson said...
So you can't intellectually commit yourself to the idea that rape is bad, just illegal?
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New Friend said...
Mark
Why on earth would you say that? Of course my personal opinion is that it is bad. My opinion is counted along with every one else's. I believe in democracy which is why I concentrate upon that and not in claiming that my own opinions are superior. Things like rape will always be illegal in a free voting democracy.
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Mark Dobson said...
"Why on earth would you say that?"
Why the shock? Perhaps it's because when I ask you if rape is bad, you tell me that it's illegal (which I already knew, thanks).
If it all hinges on democracy, I guess that means I can rape whoever I like in North Korea.
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New Friend said...
Mark
Only if you regard North Korea as a free voting democracy. I don't.
The point is that whilst holding individual opinions is a perfectly fine thing they ought not to be stated as though they equate to the law of the land. Saying "abortion is murder" is simply untrue. Saying "in my opinion abortion ought to be murder" is accurate, and acceptable.
My own opinion on the matter is not relevant.
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Nicolas Bellord said...
It depends what you mean by the word "murder". It is a term that has two senses. In popular parlance murder is the killing of a human being. As a legal term it means killing a human being after birth. In respect of abortion I prefer to say it is the killing of an innocent human being. By the way abortion is a criminal offence in this country except where it is carried out in accordance with the Abortion Act. Whether or not carried out in accordance with the Abortion Act it is still the killing of a innocent human being and equally abhorrent. Of course NF will reject that as for him morality is just a personal opinion and something only becomes wrong when there are sufficient personal opinions to constitute a majority who can legislate accordingly. Nothing is objectively wrong per se?
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New Friend said...
Nicolas
When "popular parlance" becomes the law I will agree with you. Until then I don't. There has to be a defining line. I have no problem with your personal morality determining whatsoever you like. What you cannot do is elivate that to the same level as the law of the land. If someone's morality permitted them to believe that euthanasia or infanticide was acceptable would you accept that they could act outside of the law and commit such acts within their own community? No, you would be pleased that the law agreed with your own viewpoint and be grateful for the protection it gives. You cannot have it both ways. Abortion is not murder. Murder is illegal. Abortion, as defined by the Act, is not. You can continue to object and have nothing to do with it but you ought to be more careful with your words, because they weaken your case rather than strengthen it.
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Nicolas Bellord said...
NF: I think you misunderstood me. What I was saying was that many people use the term "murder" to describe any killing of a human being whereas as in law it has a much more restricted meaning. I therefore prefer to talk of the killing of an innocent human being when discussing abortion.
For example I have seen a papal document being criticised by pro-choice people because they said that the document was calling abortion murder. However the original italian was using the word for killing and that word had been deliberately mistranslated.
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