Latest government figures that show that record
numbers of pregnancies are ending in abortion.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published
data which shows that just under a quarter (24%)
Conception rates have also tumbled to their lowest
level since 2004 – with the only increase among
women aged 40 and above.
The ONS data also revealed that women in their
early 20s are increasingly likely to have abortions.
In 2018, the percentage of conceptions leading to
abortion for women aged 20-24 was 35% – up from
33.2% in 2017. This figure has risen significantly since
1990, when the figure was 22.3%
Happening on an ‘unimaginable scale’
Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern,
said: “Lost in the release of 2018 abortion figures is
the devastating reality that every one of these
abortions represents a real, unique, human who has
deliberately been killed.
“It’s happening on a scale simply unimaginable by
those who wrote and voted for the Abortion Act 1967.
The child is not given his or her right to life, given no
advocate and is completely disregarded as a mere
blob of tissue – which could just as easily be said of
us all.
“If these babies had been delivered, we’d name it what
it truly is: legalised killing on an unprecedented scale.
“Many mothers who have had abortions feel a great
sense of guilt over what’s happened. We don’t serve
them by downplaying the tragedy of what has happened.
We need to face the horror of what is happening behind
abortion clinic doors and offer mothers, fathers and
clinicians the hope and forgiveness found only
in Jesus Christ.”
‘A demographic disaster’
Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali said: “The government
statistics reveal that we are looking a demographic
disaster in the face. Our primary concern has to be
about the large-scale destruction of humans with
potential who have no voice for themselves. But there
are also wider implications here. A nation that is
destroying a quarter to a third of its future population
has to consider who is going to look after the old, the
sick and disabled in the future who need the NHS.
Will euthanasia be a solution? Will the generation
that killed its children be in turn killed by its children?
“The viability of children born earlier than term is
increasing all the time, so we have the paradox that
unborn children can be aborted in the same hospital
where those born prematurely at the same age are
being saved through medical procedure.
“The Abortion Act, whether we like it or not, allows
abortion in strictly exceptional circumstances. It cannot
be abortion on demand.”
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