DOES talking about sex in class make it less or more attractive? And doesn’t it show that women just have more choice?
The number of abortions carried out in England and Wales rose by 3.9% to 193,700 in 2006.
There was also a rise in the under-16 abortion rate, to 3.9 per 1,000 women, and among under-18s to 18.2 per 1,000.
Abortion has been increasing since it was legalised 40 years ago - there were 22,000 legal terminations in 1968.
And get a load of this:
Abortion, said the Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien three weeks ago, is murder. “In Scotland,” he said, “we kill the equivalent of two classrooms of children every day.” He urged Catholics, in effect, not to vote for politicians who upheld the existing abortion laws, and suggested in effect that pro-choice MPs couldn’t be real Catholics. “I can’t change the Ten Commandments,” said O’Brien McKeeverishly. “That’s what I’m ordained to teach and to preach: ‘Thou shalt not kill.’”
Cardinal Keith is a celebate man and unlikely to have been in a position where abortion is a choice…
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June 19th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
“Cardinal Keith is a celebate man and unlikely to have been in a position where abortion is a choice” one hopes?
June 19th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
The government’s push to reduce NHS waiting times is leading to an increasing number of young, single women being pressured into having ’social’ abortions, and having them in ’short order’. An increasing number of these abortions are chemical abortions - RU486. Even the manufacturers of RU-486 have said that the drug puts women through an appalling psychological ordeal. Moves to promote the fast-tracking of abortion are making women ever more vulnerable to the misinformation and pressure which often accompanies abortion decisions. Department of Health targets to rush through abortions make doctors reluctant to refer women for counselling. Without positive support an abortion can seem unavoidable - but may be bitterly regretted later on. The government’s approach of promoting early abortion is increasing the overall number of abortions. Gordon Brown should end the Labour government’s policy of rushing women as quickly as possible through the abortion mill, in its frenzy to cut waiting times. He should also end the policy of promoting secret abortions on teenagers without telling their parents, and he should stop the counter-productive sex-education programmes that the pro-abortion lobby promotes widely. Most people agree that there are far too many abortions already, and will be appalled at the latest increases. Unborn children deserve our care and protection from the earliest stages of pregnancy, and these figures reflect a tragedy of vast proportions for women and families. Mr Tully concluded: “We also call upon the government, the medical profession and all those concerned to reverse the current policies which encourage abortions.
June 19th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
perhaps the Churches of this country could come down from their lofty pinnacles and realise that children will experiment with sex, somehow remove the taboo and smut levels, and teach them about safe sex i.e a condom. Not some coy preaching that its ‘for marriage’, some can do without sex and some can’t and no superior attitude from the ‘can do without.
Children are reaching puberty at ever younger ages, and if contraception were part of the sex education, (and no, boys don’t die from Durex) or girls were taught that they can use contraception without fear of mockery or emotional blackmail from teenaged lovers.
But I think if the Chruch changed it stance then parents could come out of the ‘ashamed’ closet, but until then holier than thou is killing a lot of babies