{"id":14229,"date":"2011-09-17T17:49:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=14229"},"modified":"2011-09-17T17:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-17T21:49:34","slug":"reminders-being-sent-for-abortion-appointments-because-the-prospective-mothers-are-forgetting-to-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/reminders-being-sent-for-abortion-appointments-because-the-prospective-mothers-are-forgetting-to-show-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminders being sent for abortion appointments because the prospective mothers are forgetting to show up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/women_shealth\/8771141\/Women-will-be-texted-reminders-about-their-abortion.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Britain&#8217;s largest abortion provider said it is introducing reminders because some girls and women had forgotten about their procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Critics said the move, by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), gave a disturbing insight into casual attitudes to abortion.<\/p>\n<p>BPAS, which carries out almost one third of NHS-funded terminations, likened the service, which begins in November, to reminders sent out by dentists before check-ups.<\/p>\n<p>[\u2026.]<\/p>\n<p>Stewart Jackson, Conservative MP for Northampton, who supported an amendment earlier this month by Nadine Dorries to introduce independent counselling for abortion, described the initiative from BPAS as &#8220;morally squalid&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If an unborn baby is a non-human with no soul, not bearing the image of her Creator, then dismembering her in the womb and scraping out the broken parts is of no more significance than a tooth extraction, so sending a reminder is simply &#8211; practical.<\/p>\n<p>If an unborn baby <em>is<\/em> a human, then a reminder to keep an <em>appointment<\/em> to murder could hardly be more morally squalid than the <em>decision<\/em> to murder or the <em>act<\/em> of murder.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-abortion contingent can\u2019t have it both ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Britain&#8217;s largest abortion provider said it is introducing reminders because some girls and women had forgotten about their procedures. Critics said the move, by the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), gave a disturbing insight into casual attitudes to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/reminders-being-sent-for-abortion-appointments-because-the-prospective-mothers-are-forgetting-to-show-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2022],"class_list":["post-14229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","tag-abortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}