JOHN SMEATON, DIRECTOR OF SPUC: Britain’s high abortion stats mean doctors need reality check on abortion

Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Britain’s high abortion stats mean doctors need reality check on abortion

Britain’s continuing high abortion statistics mean that many doctors need to be more aware about the damage abortion does. I've been responding today to the publication of the figures for abortion in 2009 in England and Wales and Scotland.

Although the figures indicate a slight fall in the incidence of abortion, the equivalent of 20 classrooms of children a day are still being killed by abortion in Britain.

SPUC is therefore reaching out to doctors, to provide them with better-quality information about the reality of abortion. Abortion not only kills children, it hurts women too. Disability in unborn children is often put forward as one of the main arguments in favour of legal abortion. Doctors and the public generally are unaware, however, that there is a solid body of evidence showing that the psychological after-effects on women can be particularly traumatic when an abortion is undertaken for reasons of foetal disability.

SPUC will be sending doctors evidence compiled by Dr Greg Pike, an Australian specialist in neurobiology and bioethics, on the damage abortion may cause to women’s health. We hope that this evidence will help doctors understand that women deserve better than abortion. Please read "Abortion and Women's Health" by Dr Greg Pike, May 2010

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About Me

I became involved in SPUC after graduating, when I established a branch in south London in 1974. I have worked full-time for SPUC for 42 years. I became chief executive of SPUC in the UK in 1996, having been general secretary since 1978. I was elected vice-president of International Right to Life Federation in 2005. At UN conferences in Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing, Istanbul and Rome, I helped coordinate more than 150 pro-life/pro-family groups resulting in pro-life victories in Cairo, Istanbul and Rome. I was educated at Salesian College, London, before going to Oxford where I graduated in English Language and Literature. I qualified as a teacher, becoming head of English at a secondary school. I am married to Josephine. We have a grown-up family and we live in north London.