The British public is currently being scandalized by the revelations that hospitals there have been incinerating the remains of aborted infants as clinical waste, in some cases doing so to generate electricity for hospitals. Even in that country which has so steadfastly refused to have the abortion debate, waves have been caused by the news that in the last two years alone the bodies of more than 15,000 aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated by twenty-seven National Health Service trusts. Two used the remains to burn in waste-to-energy plants that provide power for the hospitals.
How did this happen? By stealth. Britain is a country where abortion is essentially available on demand, despite the fact that no law permitting such practices has ever been passed. The 1967 Abortion Act was only supposed to allow for a termination of pregnancy under such exceptional circumstances as those that would result in “grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman.” Today almost 190,000 abortions are performed in Britain annually, most signed off on psychological grounds. Of these, three thousand are women having their fourth abortion.
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