Abortion network attacks Welsh medics’ conscientious rights

The British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) has attacked medical professionals in Wales who conscientiously object to abortion.

The activist group’s spokeswoman, Dr Jane Dickson, argued that medics’ decisions not to routinely participate in ending the lives of unborn children were unacceptable, claiming they limited the number and speed at which surgical abortions can take place in Wales. She claimed this is forcing women to travel to England for the procedure.

Under the Abortion Act 1967, healthcare workers have a legal right to opt out of assisting abortions on conscience grounds, unless the abortion is deemed necessary to save the life of the mother or to “prevent grave permanent injury”.

Re-education

Dickson said: “Many people won’t support routine provision. So, this means that often obstructions are put in place, like having the availability of an operating theatre in which you can perform the procedures, or availability of support staff.”

The BSACP council member cited the case of one young mother who did not have much support and “she actually made the decision that she would not be financially able to travel”. Dickson complained that, as a result, “she actually kept the pregnancy”.

BPAS abortionist Dr Ed Dorman, who carries out surgical abortions on women from Wales at his London clinic, called for “a concerted effort” to persuade medics in Wales to take part in abortion, claiming it was important to “tackle education in the medical workforce, but also hearts and minds in the health boards”.

Abortion factory

Last month, abortion giant MSI UK opened a new facility in Birmingham that will be able to carry out hundreds of surgical abortions a week.

With two operating theatres devoted exclusively to abortions, medics could perform 36 surgical abortions a day, 7 days a week. The organisation hopes to almost double the number of women seen at its UK facilities from 60,000 in 2020 to 110,000 in 2027.

It stated that the location was specifically chosen so women could access it without seeing any pro-life protestors. It has its own car park inside the 150-metre buffer zone, in which it is illegal to try to ‘influence’ people in relation to abortion. Earlier this year, Pastor Clive Johnston was convicted under buffer zone laws in Northern Ireland for an open-air sermon on John 3:16. He is being helped by The Christian Institute.

MSI noted that in England and Wales abortions have increased by 30 per cent from 2021, and says it opened its clinic to meet the ‘rising demand’. Approximately 98 per cent of the abortions at MSI’s facilities are funded by the NHS.