LONDON, September 22, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists voted Friday to support the liberalization of laws governing abortion procedures despite a group of 650 British doctors earlier signing a letter denouncing the “extreme” pro-abortion views expressed by the head of the RCOB.
Its president, Lesley Regan, had stated that abortions should be treated like procedures as mundane as bunion removal. Of the 6,000 members of the RCOB, only 33 had a ballot.
“It is disgraceful that a mere handful of RCOG representatives have agreed to support the removal of all legal safeguards associated with abortion,” said John Deighnan, the CEO of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. “Indeed, this dangerous move by the RCOG means that a mother could have an abortion and for any reason up to the seventh month of pregnancy, and potentially up to birth if the Infant Life Preservation Act were also to be scrapped.”
“The vote exposes the extent to which a determined minority has betrayed the fundamental calling of health workers, which is to serve life,” he continued. “Our nation needs to waken up to the barbarous system which is practiced in our
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