Nearly 200,000 abortions a year "not a problem" for UK's biggest abortion advocate

Husband is founder and former leader of the British Revolutionary Communist Party

Nearly 200,000 abortions a year "not a problem" for UK's biggest abortion advocate...

"Every man, woman, and child of the age of reason knows right from wrong, for he has been given an inborn conscience. At the moment of his conception life is within the womb, and at the moment of conception a life is forming, regardless of what the agents of hell now pollute the minds of mankind with, creating murders of the young! I say unto you, life begins at the moment of conception and all who extinguish this light are murderers, and without repentance shall be condemned to hell!” - Jesus, June 18, 1977

LifeSiteNews.com reported on April 2, 2008:

In 2006, there were 193,700 abortions in Britain, most committed for "social reasons" unrelated to the mother's health. This, however, is "not a problem" according to the current chairman of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Britain's busiest abortionist organisation.

Ann Furedi responded to the fuss in Parliament and the media in the last weeks of March over the rates of abortion and repeat abortions in Britain, saying that women simply have better things to do with their time than be mothers and that legal abortion has been a boon to that new orientation.

In a column in the hard-left online magazine Spiked titled, "Why rising abortion rates are not a problem", Ann Furedi wrote, "Why is there a continuing high rate of abortion? In my view it is quite simple: there are a lot of people out there having sex who don't want to have children."

A Conservative MP revealed in March that one third of women in Britain asking for abortions have already had at least one child killed in the womb. Mark Pritchard, MP for The Wrekin in Shropshire, told Parliament that abortion in Britain has reached "industrial" levels, with at least 1300 women in his figures having had as many as five abortions.

Furedi continues, "I would argue that we have a large cohort of people who either don't want to have children or don't want to have children at this particular time. As a society, we have a very high expectation of family planning and birth control."

Ironically, her assertion that the British simply do not want to procreate, matches almost verbatim one made by a Catholic priest and leading British pro-life advocate, Fr. Timothy Finigan who told LifeSiteNews.com that politicians' dismay and puzzlement over the high rates of abortion and repeat abortion are misplaced: "People don't want to have children. The bottom line is there's an anti-life mentality where children are seen as a bad thing."

Furedi also unknowingly gives away another of the abortion lobby's secrets, admitting tacitly that the pro-life analysis is correct: that the reason the government's commitment to contraception has failed to bring down either rates of abortion or teenage pregnancy is simply that contraception frequently fails, and abortion is the obvious solution after the fact.

She writes, "The idea that you would become a parent because a condom split is something that people don't generally find very acceptable; and in this context, abortion is seen by many people as a responsible decision."

This, however, flies in the face of the officially maintained position that there is no relationship between increased levels of abortion and teen pregnancy, not to mention sexually transmitted diseases, and the massive societal project of introducing teenagers to condoms and pills. In response to the revelation by Mark Pritchard, the Labour government predictably responded that what was needed was more "information" and access to contraception.

Furedi's possibly unconscious admission that more contraception equals more abortion, makes nonsense of the government's "targeted campaign to highlight contraceptive choices available to women" and its allocation of £26.8 million to "improve access to contraception". It seems as if it is no longer only we pro-life "nutters" who have realised that more contraception is not going to reduce the abortion rate. The only difference is that more abortion for Furedi, just is "not a problem".

The number of abortions in Britain has risen steadily and reached almost 200,000 in 2006. BPAS carries out 80 per cent of the UK's "late term" (post-20 week) abortions. In late 2004, the Daily Telegraph revealed that BPAS was referring women whose pregnancies were past the 24-week legal cut-off date for abortions a facility in Barcelona, Spain, which was itself operating outside federal laws by providing late-term "social" abortions.

Ann Furedi has made abortion advocacy her life's work and has held key positions in most of Britain's abortion-providing and advocating organisations. Her career history also reflects the close association between abortion lobbyists and the world of embryo research and cloning.

Before coming to BPAS, Furedi served as Director of Policy and Communications for the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) that sets British policy on embryo research and cloning. She is married to Frank Furedi, a lecturer in sociology and the founder and former leader of the British Revolutionary Communist Party.

Furedi goes on, again likely unconsciously, to echo one of the Catholic Church's assertions about the divisive nature of artificial contraception. She writes that people may be foregoing contraception, particularly by barrier methods, because it tends to interfere with the desired emotional intimacy of sexual relations. She writes, that the "non-use of contraception may be hooked into something else. It may be hooked into a desire for intimacy, a desire for closeness: in other words, it may be hooked into something that is not entirely dysfunctional."

"Family planning doctors," she says, "see sex in terms of risk. Good sex for family planning doctors is safe, planned, under control, negotiated, responsible. For other people, however, good sex is more to do with opportunity: it's about being edgy, exciting, spontaneous, passionate, lost in the moment, carried away, romantic." However, the Catholic Church sees the sexual act between married couples as one that, if controlled artificially in the modern way, negates any possibility of truthful intimacy.

Furedi writes, "For many people, relationships really are a balance of risks against a desire to take things for granted, to be spontaneous."

The difference, however, that neither Furedi nor the government purveyors of condoms has had the courage to grasp, is that a child is not the punishment for such spontaneity, but the natural reward and fulfilment of married life.

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Abortion as Birth Control - 1,300 UK Women Have Had at Least Five Abortions
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/mar/08032009.html

Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Canadian City Pulls Pro-Life Bus Shelter Ads Citing "Offensiveness"
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jan/08011701.html

Link to transit shelter ad:
http://www.abortionincanada.ca/Transit_Shelter_1.pdf

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"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady of the Roses, December 28, 1976

The awesome Bayside Prophecies... https://www.tldm.org/Bayside/default.htm
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

SIN OF OMISSION
"The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell. Among them there will be also mitres." - Our Lady, October 6, 1980

U.S. SHALL BE FIRST STRUCK
"One of the reasons the Eternal Father chose your city and your state for My appearance was because of abortion, the murder of the holy innocents. Your nation, without repentance, shall be the first struck." - Our Lady, March 15, 1978

THE UNITED STATES SHALL FALL
"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child? You ask Me in your heart. I read your heart. I will tell you why. Because they have given themselves over to satan. When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED
"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
"Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady, August 5, 1971

WILL NEVER BE CONDONED
"You will remember, My children and My child, to guard the young. Your clergy have fallen into darkness. Abortion will never be condoned. But We must have others who fervently will go forward and bring out to the minds of those who have actually seduced the country and the children--bring them the knowledge of Heaven, hell and purgatory. Then they will not have free license to sin." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

NUNS
"That is what makes My heart ache, My child. That is one of the reasons Theresa is crying constantly when she looks into the convents and sees what is going on. Many now believe in abortion, the murders of the children; and many have committed this act upon themselves." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just recompense." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983

BOMBS IN THE UNITED STATES
"These interlopers upon the serenity of the United States have dark skins.... With their plans there will be bombs placed in strategic places and many shall die at the hands of these ruffians....
"One big reason for permitting this disaster in New York would be the abortion mills throughout the city and the country." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

HOLY SPIRIT
"At the time of conception, the Holy Spirit makes the child, and the breath of the Almighty gives it life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1991

LIMBO
"And what, My children, are We going to do with all the aborted babies? O My child, I know you feel as I do, for I can see the great distress on your face. What are We going to do, My child? Do you understand when they come to Us, they must go to Limbo? They are in Heaven, a happy place, but they cannot see God." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

SORROWFULLY
"Sorrowfully, the penance that is to come upon the world for the murders of the unborn shall be a chastisement far greater in severity than man has ever witnessed in the past nor ever shall pass through again. Your world is plunging into a deep chasm of suffering and destruction." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975

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The sin of omission... "The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell." Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1980

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