Time for the bulldog spirit to revive – and defend those who cannot defend themselves
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 of 11 am, the 20th January 2026, the current population of the UK stood at 69,782,221, meaning that, in just one year, more babies were aborted worldwide than the entire population of the UK.
If we dig a little deeper, the latest abortion figures for England and Wales, released last week by the Department of Health and Social Care and covering the year 2023, record 277,970, marking an 11% increase on 2022 and making it the highest number since the enactment of the Abortion Act 1967. Combined with figures from Scotland and Northern Ireland, the total number of terminations for the UK is just under 300,000. Which means that across the UK, in the 58 years since 1967, there have been around 11 million abortions – more than the entire population of Greater London, or of Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool combined – with one baby aborted every 2 minutes.
Let us not forget that 98% of all abortions are for what are euphemistically termed ‘social reasons’, meaning that, for whatever reason, the unborn child is simply unwanted. Those who support abortion claim they are pro-choice, but the real ‘choice’ happens long before that thin blue line on the test kit confirms pregnancy. These days we claim consensual sex without commitment as a human right, but, discounting sexual assault and rape, both women and men have an absolute ‘choice’ over whether or not to have intercourse in the first place. And if that is what they decide, then they should be prepared to take responsibility for any new life they bring into being.
Biology, created as it is by God, remains key to the proper order and best functioning of society. Humanists, secularists, and feminists may all alike claim that moral restraint is a hangover from outdated patriarchy designed to keep women in subjection – but the creation of new life is, and always will be, the primary purpose of sex, at the same time binding together the man and woman in mutual and exclusive commitment, so that they can best support each other in caring for any children they might have. This is the basis and strength of family. When society rejects this, making instead a god of Self and lust – fed by the blood sacrifice of the unborn – then the inevitable outcome is chaos.
The truth is, we have become a society that worships death, and the disintegration of social order and culture, combined with the ever-growing violence evident on our streets, is entirely predictable. We have rejected God, and what we are seeing, both here in the UK and across the globe, is outworking of our wrong choices.
It is beyond dispute that today we are living under the growing shadow of war, but make no mistake, this is at heart a spiritual battle – between good and evil, God and the devil, that started way back in Eden and has been raging ever since. Christ came into the world to break Satan’s hold and restore men and women to that relationship with God for which we had been created. But in order to allow every man, woman and child the chance of salvation, the final battle, when the devil and his hordes will be cast into the abyss and creation will be finally and forever reclaimed, was delayed. No matter what secularists would have us believe, that spiritual battle remains the reality underlying all of life … and Christ’s return is close.
Both as individuals and as society, we have sinned in our wanton and indiscriminate slaughter of the unborn. Every child, from the moment of conception, is a human being, made in the image of God, with a divine purpose and destiny. And every child has an absolute right to the unconditional and unwavering love of those whose act brought it into being – as God Himself loves us.
We are a proud, once-strong nation. Yes, we are currently in a mess, under unremitting attack on the part of those who hate our culture, history, and national identity – but that bulldog spirit of justice, uprightness, determination, resilience and courage remains. It is time for that spirit to revive and, in the Lord’s name, for us to reclaim the ground.
God loves us, and His will remains to deliver and help – but He will do so only if and when we repent, acknowledging Him as Lord, and turn to Him for help.
It is urgent we respond, before it all becomes too late.