...there were huge - HUGE - crowds at marches in London and elsewhere to oppose the 1967 Abortion Act and the widespread killing of unborn babies...I remember speaking at a rally in London where even the BBC admitted some 80,000 people were present, and the real figure was probably much nearer 100, 000.
I remember that in those days, people who supported abortion tended to say "Well, no one is forcing you to have anything to do with it, are they?" An odd remark, because if you are obliged to fund abortion through your taxes, and if you know you should have some care for your neighbours and for human life and for the common good, then you can and must speak out and try to do something when abortion is becoming a part of everyday life...
However,there was and is a "conscience clause" in the Abortion Act that is meant to protect medical staff who knew that involvement in aborting babies is wrong...
Now, today, a Supreme Court judge has announced that midwives do not have the right to refuse, as a matter of conscience, to supervise the provision of abortions on their ward. The judge seems to think that anyone who opposes abortion has a sort of duty to ensure that others provide it - which is most certainly not what the lawmakers had in mind, and seems opposed to any ordinary reading of the Act.
Pray for a revival of spiritual and moral values, and common sense and human decency, in our country.
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