Tuesday, 17 April 2012
US charity funds British abortion training
Here's a story that we all missed: US charity to fund abortion training for British medical students. Medical Students for Choice (MSFC) will provide money for students from Britain and Ireland to do two week placements at British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) clinics so they can learn how to kill babies in the womb (in a safe and legal way.)
The problem being tackled by the MSFC and the BPAS is that increasingly, students are not really into destroying human life and would rather do something good instead. The $100K provided to 60-70 would-be abortionists results in 85% of them taking up this glamorous career path.
Thanks to Neil Addison of the Religion Law Blog for the link to this story. He points out that during the 40 Days for Life campaign, the Guardian and BPAS repeatedly spoke of the 40 Days as an American style protest. Odd that there seems nothing wrong with American style funding for the training of abortionists.
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During my medschool period I didn't have the impression there would be a shortage of future doctors willing to do abortions. I thought it was quite shocking actually. But perhaps in the UK it's different.
Family & Life reported on this over a month ago: http://www.prolife.ie/prolife/us-group-funds-abortion-training-irish-students
The Guardian article reports:
"There is already an acute shortage of expert abortion practitioners in the UK, with fewer than a dozen doctors able to provide surgical abortions up to the legal limit of 24 weeks gestation, almost all working for providers such as BPAS and Marie Stopes, rather than the NHS. It means some women needing late abortions – many of which will be in cases of fetal anomaly – have to have medical inductions."
I do not understand how is it that there are "women needing" an abortion. I can understand how they might desire an abortion but not how they would need one. The case cited of "fetal anomaly" does not seem to create such a necessity.
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