The BBC is reporting that the Scottish abortion rate rose to a high of 13, 817 last year, of which 25% were carried out on pregnant teenagers. As I noted here, the English government’s push for contraception resulted in an increase in abortions.
Scotland’s most senior Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Keith O’Brien, had this to say about the situation in Scotland:
‘The 2008 abortion statistics confirm the abject failure of the so-called ‘sexual health strategy’ of recent years. In 2007 I claimed that we kill the equivalent of a classroom full of school children every day and many objected to the vehemence of my language. Grotesquely, since then we have seen classroom sizes in Scotland fall and abortion numbers rise. He said more than 50 abortions took place every day in Scotland – the same number as two classrooms of children.
We can expect the same results in the United States. Government programs supporting contraception use increase the abortion rate. Any questions?
