Political parties silent on abortion

Sir,

With all the alleged spectacular facts, figures and statistics appearing in the political scaremongering letters one can’t help think they would even frighten the living daylights out of Dracula.

Let me provide you with very real frightening facts and figures which none of the main political parties will tell you about and which don’t appear in their manifestos.

You would think that with all the documented records of these statistics they would frighten the living daylights out of every single standing MP in government and Parliament - but the sad and sickening reality is otherwise.

Abortion, and the slaughter of the innocent, is not something that disturbs the majority of MPs. Not only do they happily approve of abortion, it doesn’t even leave them with a restless conscience or a sleepless night. Let me give you the shameful evidence. Since the abortion act was passed in 1967, there have been over eight million abortions in the UK up to the end of 2013. And as every life is precious let me break down these figures even further. In England and Wales 7,661,051 abortions were carried out while 459,767 abortions were carried out in Scotland. This is scandalous and shocking.

The official records tell us that in 2013, 98.4% of all, so-called, ‘legal abortions’ were carried out for social reasons. In other words these abortions were for convenience sake – the babies were just not wanted. A further 3,063 abortions were performed because the child was likely to be born handicapped. Only 193 abortions (0.1% of all legal abortions) were carried out because of a risk to the mother’s life or because of the risk of grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the mother. Truly nauseating.

While these figures are stomach-churning, so are the many facts that go along with them. Recent investigations into the abortion industry show that abortion laws are being flouted by many clinics and some babies are being aborted for being the wrong gender or for minor disabilities. Truly despicable.

Friends, this is not an imagined horror story this is a very real horror story. The brutal slaughter of the weak and most vulnerable among us is the innocent unborn child. Incredibly all this slaughter is carried out by medical professionals, paid for and approved by the government and they have no intentions of stopping it. If the UK, including Scotland, is a sin-sick nation how much more sin-sick are the politicians who just sit back and allow this kind of murder to continue.

For any reason other than saving a mother’s life, abortion is murder. Each abortion snuffs out an innocent human life. Abortion is not a game. And it is not a simple choice between deciding whether to have an abortion or not. Every abortion kills an innocent baby. It is killing the most defenceless living beings by taking away their most basic human right: the right to life.

The Bible reminds us that life is sacred from conception and also that the deliberate taking of an innocent human life breaks the sixth commandment: “You shall not murder.” Abortion at any stage of gestation is wrong.

There are numerous teachings in Scripture that make it abundantly clear what God’s view of abortion is. Jeremiah 1:5 tells us that God knows us before He forms us in the womb. Psalm 139:13-16 speaks of God’s active role in our creation and formation in the womb. Clearly, God views the unborn as human and precious - and so do we.

This cannot be said for any of the main parties standing in the Western Isles. The Scottish Christian Party do and they make it known in The 2015 Declaration of British Values under sanctity of life. Can I encourage all friends in the Western Isles to put your cross beside the cross this Thursday 7 May and give your vote to Mr John Cormack – for the sake of the ‘unborn child’ and everything else that Biblical Christianity stands for.

Mr Donald J Morrison

85 Old Edinburgh Road

Inverness

Letter: Main political parties silent on abortion

5 May 2015