DATE : 27 October 2026 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
Today marks the 59th anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act. At the time it was heralded as an ‘act of compassion’ that might, at most, be used around 300 times a year by desperate women who would otherwise be driven to seek the ‘help’ of back-street abortionists. Yet since that time, in England and Wales alone, […]
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DATE : 1 September 2026 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
In 1967, when David Steel introduced the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill, he said, “We want to stamp out the backstreet abortions, but it is not the intention of the promoters of the Bill to leave a wide-open door for abortion on request.” He estimated that there might be around 300 terminations a year. In 2023, there […]
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DATE : 21 January 2026 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were 73 million abortions worldwide last year. The WHO further records that annually there are between 63 to 68 million deaths of persons in being, i.e. deaths excluding abortion. Which makes abortion easily the leading cause of death worldwide in 2025. To put this in some kind of context, as […]
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DATE : 23 October 2025 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
This year marks the 58th anniversary of the Abortion Act. Back in 1967, the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Bill was marketed as a restrictive emergency measure – an act of compassion to help women who would otherwise be driven to seek backstreet abortion. David Steel, who introduced the Bill, said, “We want to stamp out the backstreet abortions, but […]
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DATE : 4 July 2024 AUTHOR : VFJUK Webmaster
If you think the material world is all there is, and that men and women are just randomised clumps of cells that cease to exist when they die, no problem – what does it matter if you abort a baby before birth? In fact, depending on circumstances, termination might be the best outcome all round! Similarly, if […]
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