A document obtained by myself indicates that Conservative MP Nadine Dorries’ recently launched Right to Know campaign could be part of long-term strategy to secure the complete prohibition of abortion in the UK on any grounds.
[You can download it from here (PPT file) or view on Google Docs]
Activities of the then LCF Director of Public Policy, Andrea Minichiello Williams, were part of a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary (short clip below).
Another member of this alliance – CARE (Christian Action Research and Education) would, in all likelihood, be the major beneficiary of the first of Dorries’ new amendments. The organisation seeks to prevent established abortion service providers, including the British Pregnancy Advisory Service and Marie Stopes International, from providing pre-abortion counselling, forcing women into the independent sector.
As we revealed in 2008, Dorries herself prefers that legal abortion limits are reduced to around only 9 weeks.
Dr Saunders himself admitted this in 2008.
Dorries recently put forward two abortion-related amendments to the Government’s Health and Social Care Bill.
The Powerpoint presentation was produced by Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship for the Lawyers Christian Fellowship (LCF) in 2006.
The Powerpoint presentation was produced by Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship for the Lawyers Christian Fellowship (LCF) in 2006.
It advocates pursuing a long-term strategy of seeking chip away at the UK’s existing abortion laws. Its ultimate aim is to obtain the outright prohibition of abortion in any circumstances, including rape, foetal abnormality and serious risk to the life of pregnant women.
It lists possible answers to questions people may have. For example, in response to: “Surely we can’t return to the days of back street abortionists and abortion tourism?”, the presentation says: “Claims of thousands of deaths before the 1967 Abortion Act were wildly exaggerated,” without offering any evidence to support that claim.
Clear links exist between Dorries and several of the organisations involved in lobbying against current abortion laws, one of which – the Lawyers Christian Fellowship – was intimately involved in the running of Dorries’ earlier ’20 reasons for 20 weeks’ campaign.
The LCF worked closely with Nadine Dorries in 2008 when both were lobbying for the abortion legal limit to be reduced from 24 weeks, as it currently stands.
In an interview last year, Nadine Dorries also admitted that her ’20 Reasons for 20 Weeks’ campaign website was created by interns at the fundamentalist group Christian Concern for our Nation for free.
As we revealed in 2008, Dorries herself prefers that legal abortion limits are reduced to around only 9 weeks.
Dr Saunders himself admitted this in 2008.
Dr Peter Saunders, general secretary of the Christian Medical Fellowship, said his group was supporting 20 weeks as a first step. “It gets a lot of people on board and gets us on the way,” he said. “We have to realise we are in for a very long battle here.”The presentation referred to in this article was obtained by entirely legal means from the website of the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship. Extracts from the presentation are provided here without the express permission of the LCF or Dr Peter Saunders for the purpose of news reporting, research and criticism.
