Just when you thought the Culture of Death took a body blow, the forces of evil come roaring back.
Yesterday, we reported on a huge victory in Scotland when pro-lifers for the third time in 16 years turned back an assisted suicide proposal. Alex Schadenberg, executive director of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, also told us
With the defeat of Scotland’s assisted suicide bill, it is more likely that the Leadbeater UK assisted suicide bill that would legalize assisted suicide in England and Wales, will also die a natural death.
And then, this.
In the words of Allison Pearson, the award-winning columnist for The Telegraph, “I wanted to scream. Britain is about to make a sickening change to the abortion law”.
As described by the Independent Catholic News what did the House of Lords do by “voting against Baroness Monckton’s amendment to overturn the extreme abortion up to birth clause in the Crime and Policing Bill,” and by turning down “Baroness Stroud’s amendment to reinstate in-person consultations with a medical professional prior to an abortion taking place at home”?
Who will suffer? A great many viable babies who will die horrible deaths while the self-evident risks to the lives of their vulnerable mothers will be lost in the din of “abortion is health care.”
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As R. Albert Mohler, Jr., wrote the House of Lords couldn’t plead ignorance:
The astoundingly radical abortion measure had been included in a far larger bill approved without much notice by the House of Commons a few months ago. The House of Lords has no such excuse, for the radical abortion language was right on the front burner—there for all to see. A few members attempted to amend the legislation by stripping the abortion proposals out of the bill, but late last night their efforts failed. The measure moves forward. The Culture of Death advances yet again.
Mohler added,
Thus, in the name of a woman’s personal autonomy the British government would put the mother’s own life in danger. Make no mistake: The Culture of Death kills, and it kills both babies and their mothers.
Catherine Robinson, spokeswoman for the invaluable Right to Life UK, warns us that the abortion lobby, like a hunger lion, will come back for more. Last June in the House of Commons, MP Stella Creasy’s even more extreme amendment fortunately did not come for a vote.
If Stella Creasy’s amendment had become part of the Bill and then gone on to become law, the abortion lobby would have arrived at their end goal all in one go – abortion would have been available in abortion clinics around the country on demand, for any reason, up to birth. …
The UK would have been left with the world’s most extreme abortion law. …
We expect it will not be long before the abortion lobby is back with another similar proposal.
For now, Robinson counsels the need for “defensive work to ensure the abortion lobby is unsuccessful at making our abortion law even worse, and therefore ending even more lives through abortion, is going to be just as important as it ever has been from now on.”
When evil is having its way, as it is in Britain, we remember “Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.” (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables.)
Or, as Martin Luther King, Jr, wrote in 1968, “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
LifeNews.com Note: Dave Andrusko is the editor of National Right to Life News and an author and editor of several books on abortion topics. He frequently writes Today’s News and Views — an online opinion column on pro-life issues.
