Abortion continues to be a world-wide problem. Look at Russia’s population problems and the rapid aging of Western Europe.

A column in The Daily Mail reveals some startling information on abortion in the United Kingdom.

Last year, there were more than 214,000 - the highest rate of abortion of any European nation, and equivalent to a population the size of a city such as Coventry.

Of these, just one per cent were carried out on the grounds that the unborn child was feared to be handicapped.

Yet it is only when you put these totals into perspective that you get a full sense of the scale of the matter: astonishingly, one in every four babies conceived in Britain today will be aborted. One in four!

1 in 4 babies conceived will be aborted? That number is simply staggering. The liberals who support big government programs and abortion rights don’t realize that they’re killing off future taxpayers. Abortion is as much an economic problem as it is moral.

Public opinion is changing:

A staggering body of research to be unveiled tomorrow shows that 68 per cent of people in this country want to make abortion law tougher and reduce the upper limit from 24 weeks to around 13 weeks.

Fifty-five per cent believe there are too many abortions and want the Government to take steps to reduce that number.

And the most unexpected aspect of the research is that it is women, not men, who are the most militant in seeking change.

Seventy-two per cent of women think the abortion limit should be almost halved from the present limit, to around 13 weeks.

So just as it was women who lobbied so hard in the Fifties and early Sixties for the right to have their voice heard on abortion, now it is women who are lobbying for the law to be tightened up.

Like me, they fear the pendulum has swung too far in favour of women’s rights and disastrously away from the rights of an unborn child.

As a conservative, I’ll never advocate abortion, but I struggle to understand why feminists are so reluctant to tighten up laws. When abortion laws were passed in the US and UK, ultrasounds and neonatal science weren’t nearly as advanced. Now we know that babies can live outside the womb at 20 weeks if the child is wanted. Science is showing us more and more that unborn children are unique and can feel pain. Personalities are based on genetics, which are determined at the point of conception. Plus, more female babies are aborted throughout the world than male. Feminists are aborting their own future generations.

The bottom line is that we can no longer deny that a fetus is a living, viable life. Notice that supporters of abortion don’t use that line anymore. Perhaps this is why we’re seeing the rallying cry, “A women’s right to choose,” more and more often. A woman does have a right to choose, and she’s choosing her life over the one that she helped create.

H/T Solo Femininity

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