Majority of teen pregnancies end in abortion
The Daily Mail reports that a majority of teen pregnancies in the United Kingdom now end in abortions, with pregnancy rates on the rise. All this despite the government handing out condoms and teaching sex in grade school.
Or perhaps it is because of these things.
Most pregnancies among girls under 18 ended in abortion last year.
Out of around 40,000 pregnancies more than 20,000 were terminated – the first time more had chosen this option than become mothers.
The figure is higher than 2007, when it just hit 50 per cent, and consistent with a steady upwards trend since the Government started its controversial Teenage Pregnancy Strategy in 1999.
Figures out on May 21 will also show that for the first time the number of abortions performed on women living in England and Wales topped 200,000.
The teenage pregnancy strategy, which has cost taxpayers more than £300million, was meant to halve the number of conceptions among girls under 18 in England between 1998 and 2010.
Ministers have tried to slash teenage pregnancies by freely handing out contraceptives and expanding sex education.
But the fall in pregnancy rates has not met Government targets, and in 2007 the rate actually rose.
Teenage pregnancy rates are now higher than they were in 1995. Pregnancies among girls under 16 – below the age of consent – are also at the highest level since 1998.
Critics labelled the Government scheme the ‘Teenage Abortion Strategy’.
As Tory MP Julian Brazier said, ‘This is a further sickening indicator of a society that has broken down and lost its moral compass.” No wonder the Bible predicts that in the end time, Britain (America’s mother) will be “confused and ashamed” (Jeremiah 50:12).
Sadly, the same strategy that the UK employed is on its way to the United States. Friday, the White House announced plans by President Obama to end funding for abstinence-only programs, and instead increase funding by $100 million annually to pass out birth control and increase sex education in government run schools–the exact plan that has proven disasterous in Britain.
Meanwhile, the United States government is funding a study on gay sex in Argentina bars. God help us.
Life holds no value among society at large today. Over the weekend the Washington Times ran a story entitled, “Choosing not to abort babies with disabilities.” While some of the stories shared were touching, many of the statistics and quotes are down right frightening. Doctors are pressing women to make a decision to abort their “disabled” children before the 24th week, because it becomes illegal in many states to perform an abortion at that time.
It seems a good time to remind people of the “Miracle Hand of Hope,” that of 20 week “fetus” Samuel Armas.
The West will pay for such a blatant disregard of human life (Jeremiah 50:14, 28-29; 51:24).
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