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Abortion provider BPAS lobbies to vastly increase number of late-term abortion services in Scotland

The UK’s largest abortion provider, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), is lobbying the Scottish Government to vastly increase the number of late-term abortion services in Scotland.

The Scotsman reports that eight health boards in Scotland do not carry out the abortions beyond 18 weeks, four have a gestational time limit of 20 weeks and NHS Fife has a limit of 15 weeks and five days.

A newspaper investigation in Scotland has found that women are travelling to England for late-term abortions because the service is not available in Scotland.

Rachael Clarke, chief of staff at BPAS, said that they are lobbying the Scottish Government to provide taxpayer funding for abortion services that would provide abortion up to 24 weeks. 

Late-term abortion and feticide

What constitutes a “late-term” abortion varies, but in general, any abortion after 16 weeks is considered late term. Abortions after 22 weeks in the UK usually involve a procedure called “feticide” in which the life of the unborn baby is ended via a lethal injection of potassium chloride through his mother’s abdomen into his heart.

The administration of potassium chloride in executions in the USA is considered so painful that it is necessary to first administer an anaesthetic before its use. There is, however, no such obligation to use painkillers in late-term selective-reduction procedures in the United Kingdom, despite the mounting evidence that the unborn baby is capable of experiencing pain and distress.

Right To Life UK spokesperson, Catherine Robinson, said: “Every abortion is a great tragedy, but late-term abortions are especially barbaric. The real scandal here is that late-term abortions are performed in England and that some people want them to be performed in Scotland too. The Scottish Government should hold strong and not give in to lobbying from the UK’s largest abortion provider who are responsible for the ending of tens of thousands of lives each year”.

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Despite the Leadbeater assisted-suicide Bill passing its Third Reading on 20 June, it scraped through by just 23 votes (314-291) after enjoying a 55-vote majority at Second Reading. Had 12 more MPs switched sides, the Bill would be dead. It now limps into the Lords with a wafer-thin majority, where peers can amend, delay or reject it outright.

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Dignity in Dying, My Death My Decision and Humanists UK have poured millions into pushing assisted suicide and will fight hard to stop the Lords overturning the Bill.

At the same time, the Antoniazzi abortion-up-to-birth amendment, passed by MPs in June, also heads to the Lords. If it becomes law, it would no longer be illegal for women to perform their own abortions for any reason – including sex-selective purposes – and at any point up to and during birth.

We will be up against the UK’s largest abortion providers, BPAS and MSI Reproductive Choices (formerly Marie Stopes), who are expected to push for even more extreme changes to our abortion laws in the Lords.

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