Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, spoke about Britain’s rising abortion rates. She pointed out that many women obtain abortions to avoid being a poor parent. That’s true. But what concerned me is the language she uses to describe this. Here is what she said: “The idea of just drifting into unplanned motherhood is seen not to be a good thing and you could argue that among many groups of people in society abortion is seen as a more responsible response to being a victim of uncontrolled fertility.”

 

A “victim of uncontrolled fertility”? She acts as though a crime has been committed against these women. Hello! The purpose of our sexual organs is to procreate. How, when procreation results, can we call the new mother a victim? It sickens me to hear of children being spoken of this way. The child is being spoken of as a perpetrator of a crime, not as a blessing. I guess we shouldn’t be surprised given the West’s increasing anti-children attitudes.

 

Later in the article the author, Celia Hall, summarized another statement of Furedi in which she spoke of unplanned pregnancies as an “uninvited pregnancy.” Uninvited? Sex makes babies. Every time someone has sex they invite the possibility of a child. A child is never uninvited. It may not be wanted, but it is always invited. Furthermore, by calling the baby “uninvited” it makes the baby sound like an intruder. Furedi is demonizing the children who didn’t ask to be created, rather than the parents. That makes no sense.

 

The article ended with a sound statement from a pro-life organization called Life: “Society must respect the right to life of all human beings, even those who are small and vulnerable and possibly inconvenient.” Exactly.