“The Church needs to reclaim her voice and her position of being a beacon of hope, truth, and baby rescue in a broken world.” That’s the view of the founder and Chief Executive of Christian Concern and the Christian Legal Centre in the UK, Andrea Williams. Here she discusses Britain’s devastating abortion statistics and encourages the Church to respond faithfully and boldly to these increasing attacks on human life in the UK.
Between 2021 and 2022, abortions in the UK surged by 17.3% from 215,000 to 252,000.
This is the highest year-on-year leap in the number of abortions in 50 years since decriminalisation began.
At Christian Concern, we warned this would happen with the legalisation of the ‘pills by post’ scheme implemented during the covid pandemic.
DIY abortion has become sadly entrenched in our society, and this tragic leap in abortions is the result.
“EACH ABORTION STATISTIC IS A HUMAN LIFE LOST”
We must not allow ourselves to become desensitised to the reality that each one of these digits is a human life lost.
Despite the number of women in England and Wales having increased by almost four million over the two decades from 2002 to 2022, the number of births in 2022 was at its lowest since 2002.
Abortions now end more than a third of all pregnancies for British women over the age of 40.
These statistics are heart-breaking.
“ABORTIONS REVEAL THE LOSTNESS OF BRITISH CULTURE”
They reveal the lostness of our culture; that we are willing to allow these innocent lives to be taken and these women to be deceived into thinking they have the right to take the lives of their own children.
We have forgotten the value of life, the importance of family, and the beauty of bringing children into this world.
Apart from the unborn, those perhaps paying the highest price for the deceptive ideology of abortion, is the rising generation.
We owe them more.
Over 50% of all teen pregnancies now end in abortion, and almost half of 20-to-24-year-olds make the same choice.
“A SILENT CRISIS AMONG OUR YOUNG PEOPLE”
These statistics reveal a silent crisis among our young people.
A whole generation is growing up unable to see the humanity of the children they are carrying.
They have been lied to by a culture and by laws that say their unborn children are merely ‘clumps of cells’ and not priceless human lives.
That is not just their fault. It is also ours.
‘WE HAVE DEHUMANISED LIFE IN THE WOMB”
We have allowed the creation of a culture that is unaware of the truth about pregnancy and the reality that there are always two lives involved.
We have dehumanised life in the womb to the detriment of what it means to be a woman and a mother and to the detriment of society.
When a woman takes the life of her child, it is counter intuitive.
No wonder she feels intensely confused, bewildered, sad, alone, and depressed.
“A CULTURE THAT HAS LOST ITS MORAL COMPASS”
We are not empowering young people; we are abandoning them to a culture that has lost its moral compass.
And then we leave them in their turmoil of confused emotions without giving them the tools and information to know why they feel this way.
This is one of the tragic results of abortion ideology.
That hurting women who feel post-abortive regret and depression are told there is no reason for them to grieve the loss of their child, because their baby was not a human life anyway.
They deserved the truth before their abortion, and they deserve the truth about why they are grieving after the loss of their baby.
“LABOUR-LED LAWS DISMANTLING BIBLICAL VALUE OF LIFE AND FAMILY”
After Labour’s landslide win in the general elections, the charge against life has only accelerated and is becoming yet more deadly in a majority Labour chamber.
The House of Commons has passed laws decriminalising abortions up to birth and allowing assisted suicide, which still need the support of the House of Lords.
One thing is clear – under the influence of Left-leaning policies, Labour strongholds have become deadly places for the unborn and the vulnerable.
More than 40% of pregnancies in the Labour-majority cities of Liverpool and Brighton end in abortion.
“THE CHURCH MUST NOT STAY SILENT”
The Left is merely revealing our nation’s state of heart, and only Jesus can provide the life-giving solution to the UK’s headlong pursuit of self-destruction.
The Church needs to reclaim her voice and her position of being a beacon of hope, truth, and baby rescue in a broken world.
And in bringing Jesus to the heart of society, we will create a pro-life culture that will spring up from our churches and from our young people, forming a holy revival that saves lives, families, communities and our nation.
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