UK women aborting unborn babies because of Tory benefit cuts Archived Message
Posted by Gerard on June 21, 2019, 9:54 pm, in reply to "Those Atos schwein would have fitted right into Mengele's outfit in the Third Reich. NOM"
"In his 2015 Budget, austerity Chancellor George Osborne capped child credits at two kids per family, hitting an estimated 70,000 families. It gets worse. The British Pregnancy Advice Service says “The two-child benefit cap was designed to influence reproductive decision-making. We are certainly aware of cases where that has been a factor in a woman’s decision to end a third, unplanned pregnancy.”* The BPAS doesn’t say how many cases, but even one embryo aborted – one child who isn’t here – because the Tories think the poor shouldn’t have big families is appalling. Some say the policy deters feckless parents from having too many children. That patronising view is an argument for contraception, not abortion. Of all the nasty, penny-pinching, punitive policies imposed on the have-nots, this must rank as the most heartless. Forcing a woman to choose between aborting her unborn child and poverty is an assault on motherhood. I am not anti-abortion. I go along with the woman’s right to choose, albeit it with a heavy heart. The 200,000-plus terminations a year in Britain, equal to the population of York, is not a figure to be proud of. And this isn’t really a woman’s choice. It is Chinese-style state control on the freedom of less well-off couples to decide on the size of their family. Naturally, this inhumane embargo doesn’t worry wealthy ministers. Home Secretary Sajid Javid, who earned £3million a year as a banker before entering politics, has four children with wife Laura. Soon-to-be Tory leader Boris Johnson can beat that. He has five children, four with his soon-to-be ex-wife Marina, and one from an extramarital affair. * “Do as we say, not as we do” has always been their motto. Extending it to parenthood shows just how hypocritical they are." https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/paul-routledge-uk-women-aborting-16549085 *Italics mine.
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