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Young woman with cancer who gave birth despite warnings from her doctor

The issue of poor quality of life is often cited in the debate over abortion for disability and assisted dying.  Here is a young woman who is living proof of the importance of  positive support, both from her parents and from technology.

Well done to Joanne.  Last December  she persuaded the Irish Parliament to reverse a decision to reduce disability support for teenagers, now she is taking on the United Nations.  Her personal motto is ‘no limbs, no limit’.  We believe her.

China’s policy has the support of both UK and US government funding, via their overseas family planning policies, often euphemistically termed ‘Reproductive Health’ strategies. David Cameron recently responded to a letter from the ProLife Alliance saying that the British Government does not support China’s One Child Policy. What he neglected to add was that UK tax payers’ money is paid to Marie Stopes International who are heavily involved in the massacre and indescribable suffering.

The ProLife Alliance urges you to click on the link to this international petition and pass it on to as many people as possible, including those who are in favour of ‘a woman’s right to choose’ reminding them that the women of China have no choice.

We hope you will also pass on two videos. The first is footage from Al Jazeera focussing on an individual Chinese family’s story. The other shows how one US woman works tirelessly to bring this horror to an end. Reggie Littlejohn is an example to us all.

Mr Atkinson has waged his own pro-life campaign over the years. This has included sending leaflets to Queen Elizabeth Hospital’s chief executive in 2006. As a result he was refused a hip replacement and an eye operation by the hospital. One of the conditions of the Asbo which he received in 2006 was that he would refrain from sending leaflets. Mr Atkinson was very candid that he would not abide by this. His words were ‘Then you will have to lock me up and throw away the key.’

The ProLife Alliance is shocked that the courts should place an Asbo on people who protest against injustice. Surely the reason for Asbos is to protect society against violent behaviour, not to curtail freedom of speech.

Mr Atkinson currently needs two sticks to walk and is in need of both a hip and eye operation. While most 79 year olds feel entitled to a restful old age with access to full medical care, Mr Atkinson is trying so hard to defend the unborn future generation and unable to access medical care unless his condition is life-threatening.

Perhaps Mr Atkinson should be given a medal rather than an Asbo.

In 1994, the Indian government, worried by this, banned ante-natal tests to determine the sex of babies, and consequent selective abortion of girls, but the practice continues. It is reliably estimated that each year, in India, around 500,000 girls are aborted. It is amazing that feminists worldwide are so set on “reproductive rights” (meaning abortions) for women that they are not vigorously combating this.

But one man has taken a big step beyond just saying “Isn’t it awful?” and has started to do something practical to help. Mr. Kulwant Singh Dhaliwal , from Appleton, Warrington, is a successful business man who retired after selling a chain of 16 fashion shops in Greater Manchester and went to visit the village in India where he was born, Bir Rarke in the state of Punjab.

He noticed that most children in a school class were boys, and was horrified to learn that after an illegal ultrasound to discover an unborn baby’s sex, baby girls were frequently aborted. In the rural community of around 3,000, about 70% were boys. Many parents preferred boys, as being more likely to support them in old age, and also felt that they could not afford the dowry needed for a girl to marry.

Mr Dhaliwal has set up a charity which aims to prevent families in India aborting girls. He said “I told them all I would look after your daughters, I would pay for the education and health care, I would ensure that they had jobs and when the time came I would get them married off.”

He added that since he started his project there are now more girls born in the village than boys.

What a hero! What an excellent response, to give real positive help. And what a happy story. More information on gendercide and this story can be found on the following external link.

We hear often from men who have suffered following abortion experiences, which frequently occurred without them even knowing that their child’s live was going to be terminated, or despite their offer to provide all possible help to ensure that the pregnancy continued. These paternal testimonies are extremely heart-rending. The injustice of not even being allowed to register objection to the abortion going ahead, or to have a voice in the sensitive handling of the remains of their child, is something we should all acknowledge.

With permission from one such father we are publishing his account of how he has suffered following the abortion of his child. If there are other men who would like to tell their stories for our website we will be happy to put them up (email to: info@prolife.co.uk). It is an opportunity to testify that you as a father did love your unborn child.

Is it rational to miss somebody you never had the opportunity to meet? This question has by far been the most testing in a litany of self-interrogation that no amount of supplication or intellectualisation has answered.

No, it’s not rational to miss somebody I have never met. Neither is it rational to deny the father any stake in the decision to decide the fate of somebody so precious and vulnerable. I call her Maggie; she is ballsy and inquisitive like her mother, beautiful because of those qualities, not just because she looks like her. She got her height, great hand –eye co-ordination and egregious dance moves from me. Well it’s something. I love you Maggie, more than I can take x

Viewers can share their own thoughts and feelings about abortion and comment on the speakers on the 4thought website. The ProLife Alliance urges viewers to do so.

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The films will be shown as follows:

Monday 15th November at 7.55pm – Rachel Bass

Practising Christian Rachel Bass decided to have an abortion after discovering her baby was severely disabled, but believes that God understands the difficult decision she had to make.

Tuesday 16th November at 7.55pm – Dr Trevor Stammers

Dr Trevor Stammers is a Christian who has been a practising GP for over 30 years. He refuses to personally refer women for abortions and believes there is a growing uneasiness in the medical profession about the vast numbers of abortions performed simply because women see children as a “social inconvenience”.

Wednesday 17th November at 7.55pm – Professor Wendy Savage

Professor Wendy Savage is a retired obstetrician and gynaecologist and the co-ordinator of Doctors for a Woman’s Choice on Abortion. She believes that abortion is an important medical procedure and that religious groups should not tell women what they should do with their lives.

Thursday 18th November at 7.55pm – John Smeaton

National Director of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child John Smeaton is fundamentally opposed to abortion in all cases. He believes that the same arguments that were used to justify slavery are now being used to justify abortion.

Friday 19th November at 7.25pm – Cat Stark

Twenty-seven year old Cat Stark had an abortion when she fell pregnant at university. She believes that it is patronising that women have to satisfy a list of criteria before being allowed an abortion and thinks that the 24 week time limit should be removed, as women are best-placed to make decisions about their own bodies.

Saturday 20th November at 7pm – Kiran Kaur

Sikh Kiran Kaur has a six-month-old daughter and is dismayed that women in the Asian community are still aborting their female babies for social reasons. She believes this is fundamentally at odds with the Sikh faith which preaches the equality of men and women.

Sunday 21st November at 7.05pm – Lucy Cavendish

Writer Lucy Cavendish had two abortions before starting her family. She viewed them as practical not moral decisions, and thinks it is wrong to bring a baby into the world that you do not want.

The ProLife Alliance congratulates Missy Smith on her courage and willingness to put herself forward to champion the most vulnerable in society and to protect women from making a terrible mistake through lack of information. Every woman contemplating abortion should have the right to know the truth beforehand.

When the ProLife Alliance campaigned as a political party, like Missy Smith, we used images of abortion both in a party political broadcast and as candidates campaigning in some constituencies. In a well publicised case we fought the BBC for the right to show images of aborted babies in our party political broadcast. Candidate Fiona Pinto was arrested for showing images as part of her campaign on the streets.

I have the physical disability cerebral palsy and other conditions. But I’m so glad my lovely parents didn’t have me aborted at birth. I have engaged in adult ed and the church. I think apart from a few rare exceptions where someone is suffering unbearable pain, life on the whole is too precious to resign from. Please make potential parents of handicapped children more aware of this. Life is sacred.

Love

Garry