Parliament has just decriminalised abortion up to the point of birth. A baby at 9 months is not a cluster of cells. It’s a human life. We now live in a country where that life can be legally ended with no consequences. This isn’t progress. It’s the legalisation of murder. Liberalism has gone mad.
Those who voted for Kim’s killing fields today thinking they will remain restricted to the terminally ill are badly mistaken. Those whose only mantra is ‘choice’ will be already planning to extend that ‘choice’ to those they will choose. A dark day for the UK
It is a shocking time to be alive. The harms this ideology lays on the global south aren’t even fully understood. Pharma companies using world’s populous land for experimenting GnRH. Media, law, police all hijacked, throwing women under the bus - it was easy because we were never important to them. Men glorified as mothers, young lesbian women forced to permanently surgically alter their bodies simply to be with their loved ones, or fear corrective rape in the hands of family. The damage hasn’t even scratched the surface yet, and it feels like I’d fight this my whole lifetime. THIS unnecessary fight when women have actual real dangers in the form of caste, religion, and class. These world leaders must hang their heads in shame.
@zatzi My thoughts exactly. I feel despair for the society my grandchildren will grow into. I feel determination to stand up still and shout out in protest to protect them. Hope I teach them a moral code
We are heading for a world that kills babies at full term and adults when they become inconvenient.
The value of life is plummeting.
This government is intent on destroying the sanctity of sentience.
Will anyone stand up for traditional Christian values?
The day @UKParliament voted to make it lawful to kill a baby for any reason, including for sex-selection,at any point up to and during birth,was the day Britain forfeited its claim to be civilised. Article 3 UDHR - the right to life-the foundational right https://t.co/mrj99ovIDF
It's not "a step forward in reproductive rights". This is a legal change that 97% of women in this country oppose. How can killing a baby the day after it is born be murder but killing that same baby the day before be a legal act? That's not feminism, that's madness.
I get the feeling that some MPs haven't scrutinised the #AssistedDying bill& are voting for this because they feel that Kim Leadbeater is a good egg, which undoubtedly she is. But this is NOT voting 4 your favourite act at Eurovision, this is seismic law change at breakneck speed
Statement from Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
On the UK House of Commons Vote to Permit Abortion Up to Birth
With sorrowful indignation, I condemn the vote by the UK House of Commons to permit abortion up to the moment of birth—a decision so barbaric, so devoid of conscience, that it defies the very notion of civilization.
This is not legislation—it is legalized slaughter. It is the cold, calculated permission to tear innocent children from their mothers’ wombs at the threshold of life. What kind of nation, what kind of people, look upon a fully formed child and call her disposable? What kind of parliament declares open season on the most vulnerable and calls it “choice”?
Let us be absolutely clear: this is murder. Euphemisms cannot cleanse this evil. The vote in Westminster is a grave offense against Almighty God, a moral descent into depravity, and a sign of a society that has lost its soul.
Saint John Paul II warned us:
“The acceptance of abortion in the popular mind, in behavior and even in law itself, is a telling sign of an extremely dangerous crisis of the moral sense, which is becoming more and more incapable of distinguishing between good and evil.”
(Evangelium Vitae, no. 58)
And the prophet Isaiah cries out again in our day:
“Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil, that put darkness for light and light for darkness … that justify the wicked for gifts, and take away the justice of the just from him.” (Isaiah 5:20, 23)
To the faithful in the UK: you must resist this with every spiritual and moral force at your disposal. To be silent now is to be complicit. To the priests and bishops: you must preach, you must act, you must protect the little ones! No excuse, no delay.
The measure of a nation is not its wealth, but its mercy. And a nation that slaughters its unborn on the altar of convenience has chosen death.
May God have mercy on the United Kingdom. May the Blood of these innocents cry out to Heaven—and may the faithful never cease to defend them, until this darkness is cast down.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
@SorchaEastwood Such a pity when every vote is precious against this attempt to bring assisted suicide to our society. grade 3 mask acceptable when you travel- masks used to protect health workers during pandemic.
Something to consider to protect society from bigger risk - the AS Bill.
In 2005, the Voluntary Euthanasia Society rebranded themselves Dignity in Dying. This was a smart move as the word euthanasia is tainted for its use by the Nazis: it is far easier to rally behind the idea of dignity. https://t.co/tqlwOA3Mj1
Canadian doctor tells the BBC: We used to offer suicidal people counselling and care – now we are seeing that as an appropriate request to die – and ending their lives very quickly 😲
Thank you to the 1000+ doctors who signed our letter within 48hrs, raising concerns about the risk of harm from the #assisteddying bill. These doctors are from all specialties, stages, regions and beliefs. @BottProf @iamdrmarklee https://t.co/WC8PjxQXDR