{"id":4460,"date":"2012-10-10T14:13:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2012-10-11T05:55:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T04:55:12","slug":"jeremy-hunts-abortion-view-untenable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianvoice.org.uk\/index.php\/jeremy-hunts-abortion-view-untenable\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Hunt’s abortion view ‘untenable’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baby in its amniotic sac eight weeks from conception<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jeremy Hunt’s view that the abortion limit should be halved to 12 weeks is untenable, says the National Director of Christian Voice.<\/p>\n

The Health Secretary said he believed there is a moral case for cutting the current time limit of 24 weeks.
\n\u201cEveryone looks at the evidence and comes to a view about when they think that moment is, and my own view is that 12 weeks is the right point for it,\u201d Mr Hunt told The Times.<\/p>\n

Mr Hunt, who was appointed to his post last month, denied that his view on abortion was based on religious belief.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt\u2019s just my view about that incredibly difficult question about the moment that we should deem life to start. I don\u2019t think the reason I have that view is for religious reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n

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David Steel and Yvette Cooper would allow the legalised killing of this unborn child 20 weeks after conception<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Prime Minister David Cameron, Culture Secretary Maria Miller and Home Secretary Theresa May backed a reduction of four weeks, to twenty weeks, but Mr Cameron stressed there were no plans to bring legislation forward.<\/p>\n

Some Christian groups have urged their members to write and thank Mr Hunt, Mrs May and Mrs Miller but Anthony Ozimic of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children said any move to reduce the abortion limit was doomed to failure. “There is a large pro-abortion majority in parliament which will ensure that any time-limiting amendments are rejected while using the opportunity to push for pro-abortion amendments,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The real political debate about abortion in the UK should focus \u2013 as it does elsewhere in the world \u2013 on the right to life of all unborn children and on the way governments bankroll abortion access at home and abroad.”<\/p>\n

Andrew Stephenson of Abort67 agreed. A Parliamentary debate “may allow the pro-aborts to slip in amendments to make access to abortion easier.”\u00a0 He said a reduction might save a few babies from death but pointed out that well over 90% of abortions take place in the first trimester (13 weeks and below) in any case.<\/p>\n

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A baby in its amniotic sac less than a month after conception, sadly removed because it was growing ectopically, in the mother’s fallopian tube. Abortion can always be allowed to save the life of the mother – but not her lifestyle!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On a positive note, Mr Stephenson said:<\/p>\n

“Any attack on the abortion industry is a good thing.\u00a0 This puts them on the defensive and causes them to speak.\u00a0 If you have listened to the abortion advocates speak you will know that they always provide us with new openings to expose how deceptive and corrupt they really are.\u00a0\u00a0 We want them to keep speaking!<\/p>\n

“It also shows that there is growing discontent for the status quo.\u00a0 When MPs feel they can stand up for issues that would have previously been considered too contentious they must know that things are changing; over 63% of people (and increasing) in a recent poll support a total ban on abortion.”<\/p>\n

Stephen Green, National Director of Christian Voice, said:<\/p>\n

“I am totally perplexed by Mr Hunt’s logic. Why should we ‘deem life to start’ at twelve weeks when all organs are in place at eight weeks, the baby’s heart is already beating four weeks after conception and all genetic material is there when sperm meets egg? His view is simply untenable.”\u00a0 (See link here.<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n

Mr Hunt’s remarks drew a predictable tirade of abuse from abortionists and their supporters.<\/p>\n

Lord Steel, the unrepentant architect of the Abortion Act 1967, responsible for the deaths of over 6 million British children, “expressed his dismay” while shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper described Mr Hunt’s remarks as “chilling”.<\/p>\n

“David Cameron needs to make sure his health secretary doesn’t distort medical evidence and does not impose his own view on women about their health,” she said.<\/p>\n

Stephen Green responded:<\/p>\n

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Child in the womb at 16 weeks gestation – an entirely separate human being from his mother.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“All but a handful of abortions are carried out on perfectly healthy women who just find this new human being growing inside them inconvenient.\u00a0 As for medical evidence, Yvette Cooper merely needs to look at the wonderful new catalogue of images of children in the womb.\u00a0 And if she wants something really ‘chilling’, she could take a look at the results of abortion.”\u00a0 The results of abortion\u00a0– pictures here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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