The Welsh Government – A Future without Children!

Recently I read an article in WalesOnline that I think clearly lays out the position of our Government, mainstream media and private abortion providers when it comes to this issue. The article begins with a header stating that “two women make the toughest choice imaginable.” These women, “needing one key treatment” (Italics added) have different experiences of how easy it is for the NHS (State) to provide abortions depending on if they have a GP in England or Wales. Then the article proper begins with the line, “Two women in Cardiff want abortions.” (italics added).

This is one example of the dishonest approach to the issue. Do these women need an abortion or do they want one? I am of the position that nobody needs an abortion, certainly not the baby killed by it, nor the mother who believes this may be her only choice, or her best choice. 

Because one of the women, using the name “Beda” had a GP in Wales, the time it took for her to get an appointment meant she had to have a surgical procedure to kill the child rather than an at home experience she would have preferred. Her baby was twelve weeks old and therefore too old to be killed at home.

Beda goes on to say how pregnancy was making her hungrier and she was gaining weight. She felt out of control. She was tired and unhappy. As a husband and father of three, I can say this all sounds normal to me. Pregnancy experiences vary hugely for women (and their husbands) and in my experience, the beginning and the end are the most difficult. The mother’s body is doing a lot of amazing work and while any negative effects may vary dramatically from feeling mildly unpleasant to very serious health concerns, there can still be real joy and hope found in the journey.

Vivienne Rose of BPAS was on hand to point out how quickly a child could be killed if women came to them, self-referring if necessary. One of the problems with the delays is that women are telling her, “it’s growing inside me, it’s making me feel much worse about leaving it later”. The trauma abortion causes the mother begins the moment they start walking down that path and it only gets worse. The reason many women say it feels ‘worse later’ is actually because reality is sinking in and they begin to recognise the humanity of their child which was there all along. Thankfully there are people and places who are there to help women after abortions who have suffered in this way, Rachel’s Vineyard is a great place to start.

The other woman from the article, using the name “Rachel” discovered her pregnancy while holidaying abroad, and sought out the Red Cross for an abortion. Apparently they were unable to assist her immediately, (should they be offering access to this at all, given their Christian roots?) and so she went home and using an English address was able to get abortion pills. Rachel details how depressing the journey was – that she couldn’t have her mother or sister with her for this event and that she took the first abortion pill while still on the train home. How ironic that she is focusing on the importance of family at a time when she is destroying her own.

Vivienne says that women are paying thousands for private abortions because they “want it out of the way.” There is a great deal of truth in that, but unborn babies are human beings and however ‘in the way’ and inconvenient human beings can sometimes seem the solution can never be to end their life.

The Welsh Government says “Abortion Care should be available locally and without delay”. Who is receiving the care in abortions? Again the answer is not the baby who dies, and not the mother either, who suffers the trauma of abortion. Given the state of our politics and Government it’s not surprising they are finding the time to look at speeding up the efficiencies of killing preborn children, but of course the worry from BPAS is that “their heart isn’t it”. 

And medical professionals are noting that the delays and denials of abortions are partly caused by those pesky conscientious objectors whose legally protected right to not be part of the procedure can slow down the rate of procedures and impact the experience of women using the “service”. More power to them, these conscientious objectors!

As an aside, there is loud silence in this article where the voices of the involved men are not heard. Perhaps they don’t want to be, maybe they think it’s not their business or maybe they don’t care at all. We should all care, were all babies who got to live. Those of us blessed to create more babies need to stand up and defend them, that includes you, fathers.

The Welsh Government closes out the article by committing to a “robust and sustainable service for the future”. The irony of this line cannot be overstated. Sustainable? Service? Future? ‘Service’ implies help of some kind which is in grave contradiction to what abortion is and ‘future’? What kind of future is there if we kill our children?

Daniel

March for Life UK

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