{"id":236460,"date":"2020-12-18T11:38:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=236460"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:13:47","slug":"uk-chain-sends-abortion-pills-beach-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/uk-chain-sends-abortion-pills-beach-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Against restrictions, UK abortion chain sends woman abortion pills so she can take a beach vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An undercover investigation<\/a> by pro-lifers in England\u00a0found that an abortion chain was willing to do an abortion because the woman was going on vacation and wanted to look good on the beach. Yet UK law, as it is written, has strict criteria for legal abortions that clearly weren’t met in this case.<\/p>\n

In the UK, a woman must get the permission of two doctors before she can have an abortion. These are the grounds under which<\/a> abortion is allowed:<\/p>\n

A. The continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk to the life of the pregnant woman greater than if the pregnancy were terminated<\/em><\/p>\n

B. The termination is necessary to prevent grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman<\/em><\/p>\n

C. The pregnancy has not exceeded its twenty-fourth week and that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman<\/em><\/p>\n

D. The pregnancy has not exceeded its twenty-fourth week and that the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of any existing children of the family of the pregnant woman<\/em><\/p>\n

E. There is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped<\/em><\/p>\n

A 2018 study<\/a> found that 97.7% of abortions were done under ground C. 1.6% were carried out under ground E, and only 0.6% under ground D. Very, very few abortions were done under grounds B and A.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0UK woman aborts baby at 28 weeks after getting abortion pills by mail<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As it turns out, 99.9% of abortions carried out under Ground C were because of risk to the mental \u2014\u00a0not physical \u2014\u00a0health of the mother.\u00a0British pro-lifers have long believed many of these abortions are done for non-serious reasons.<\/p>\n

In the undercover investigation, a woman calling herself Saskia called the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), a chain of abortion facilities in England. She asked for the abortion pill. Along with Marie Stopes, another abortion chain, BPAS commits the majority of abortions in the UK.<\/p>\n