In July 2017, a month after the last General Election, some of the top figures in Britain’s abortion industry were in ebullient mood.
One of the most outspoken of them, Ann Furedi, the chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), the largest private provider of NHS abortions in the country, wrote in an article for Spiked that “many of us are humming along to that dodgy disco classic ‘Ain’t No Stopping Us Now’. We are indeed on the move”.
The McFadden and Whitehead tune that was ringing around her head, she explained, was born of the joy that Parliament was now, for the first time since 1967, as pro-abortion as it was when David Steel introduced his Private Member’s Bill. “Politicians now see bending to pro-choice, rather than anti-abortion, opinion as expedient,” she proclaimed.
