Don’t miss this chance to help the unborn
SIR – Fifty years ago the Abortion Act was passed. Since then more than eight million abortions have been carried out in Britain. More and more babies are being born – and survive – at 23 weeks gestation and yet the law allows abortion up to 24 weeks and beyond.
Instead, there are those who would remove the few, modest safeguards in place – such as the requirement for two doctors to authorise an abortion – and discard the right of doctors, nurses and pharmacists to exercise a conscientious objection to be involved in abortion. In the past two years we have seen doctors performing abortions on grounds of gender not being disciplined by the law.
