Abortion at Term: A Line That Should Never Have Been Crossed
Abortion at Term: A Line That Should Never Have Been Crossed
On June 17th, 2024, the UK Parliament passed a vote that has shaken many of us to the core. With little public debate and minimal media coverage, abortion is to be decriminalised at any stage of pregnancy — right up to the moment of birth.
379 MPs voted in favour. 137 against.
No legal protections will remain for unborn children, no matter how viable they are outside the womb.
This wasn’t a technical adjustment. This was a moral turning point. And it happened almost in silence. Everyone's attention apparently directed towards the assisted dying bill.
The Miracle of the Mother-Child Bond
Before we can even grasp what’s been lost, we must remember what pregnancy really means — beyond politics, beyond slogans.
When a woman is pregnant, she and her baby are in a constant biological conversation. Through a phenomenon called fetal-maternal microchimerism, cells from the baby pass into the mother’s body — lodging in her tissues, her bones, even her brain. These cells can remain for decades, leaving a permanent imprint of that life within hers.
If the mother’s heart is injured, those fetal cells rush to help heal her. The baby protects the mother, just as the mother protects the baby.
This is not just poetic imagery. This is science. And it’s sacred.
The Sanitisation of Abortion
So how did we get here — to a place where such profound bonds are treated as disposable?
It starts with language.
Slogans like “pro-choice” sound kind, reasonable, empowering.
But beneath that language lies a very different reality.
One where abortion is normalised, sanitised, and presented as a simple solution to complex human pain.
And behind that sanitisation is power — and profit.
Abortion as Big Business
In the United States, Planned Parenthood reported:
$1.6 billion in income (2019-2020)
Over $2 billion in net assets
Nearly 355,000 abortions performed in one year
More than 3.3 million abortions over a decade
Abortions made up 96% of their pregnancy resolution services. Adoption referrals and prenatal care combined? Just 2%.
And in some cases, investigations have revealed that aborted baby parts have been sold:
A brain: over $3,300
Arms or legs: nearly $900 each
This is not compassion. This is commerce.
What Kind of Society Do We Want to Be?
No other vulnerable group in our society would be treated this way. We wouldn’t dream of applying suc standards to the elderly, the disabled, the sick. And yet the unborn — the silent, the unseen — are stripped of protection.
What does that say about us?
It says we’ve lost sight of the sacred.
It says we’ve allowed convenience, ideology, and profit to outrun conscience.
And it says we’re in urgent need of moral courage.
A Call to Conscience
If this vote passed quietly, let us choose not to remain quiet.
Let us speak. Let us advocate. Let us build a culture that supports both mother and child — that offers real alternatives, real compassion, real solutions.
Let us remember that life — every life — leaves a mark.
A law may erase a baby’s legal status, but it can never erase their humanity.
It’s not too late. But it is time.
Time to see.
Time to stand.
Time to choose life.
