More Ginemedex Crimes
Once again the Ginemedex clinic in Spain has been exposed by the Sunday Telegraph as having committed a crime.
A 20 year old woman was sent there by her father after he had arranged the honour killing of her fiancee. The matter is now being investigated. Manna Begum was six months pregnant.
What is happening? In Spain abortion is illegal after 22 weeks unless there is a medical emergency. Yet Ginemedex have themselves admitted that they play around a bit with the law. It is the same clinic that BPAS, the abortion provider subsidised by the NHS, refers women to who are above the British time limit.
Clearly no counselling takes place, no questions are asked. Begum was not making a free choice in any sense. She was most probably terrified.
To speak of the 'woman's right to choose' under these circumstances would be absurd. Where are the left whe women's rights are being violated like this?
The left generally oppose mandatory counselling, instead they call for abortion on demand. Yet this case was the result of 'abortion on demand' in action. Far from a vindication of women's rights - it is a grotesque violation.
A 20 year old woman was sent there by her father after he had arranged the honour killing of her fiancee. The matter is now being investigated. Manna Begum was six months pregnant.
What is happening? In Spain abortion is illegal after 22 weeks unless there is a medical emergency. Yet Ginemedex have themselves admitted that they play around a bit with the law. It is the same clinic that BPAS, the abortion provider subsidised by the NHS, refers women to who are above the British time limit.
Clearly no counselling takes place, no questions are asked. Begum was not making a free choice in any sense. She was most probably terrified.
To speak of the 'woman's right to choose' under these circumstances would be absurd. Where are the left whe women's rights are being violated like this?
The left generally oppose mandatory counselling, instead they call for abortion on demand. Yet this case was the result of 'abortion on demand' in action. Far from a vindication of women's rights - it is a grotesque violation.
posted by Liz at 4:57 PM
2 Comments:
hi Liz
I agree with you that this story is an appalling violation of the woman. I find it difficult to understand why the abortion supporting media are silent when it comes to this kind of story. It is as though they are prepared to overlook the abuse of women who are coerced into abortion.
I also think the stereotype of prolifers as anti-women is so obviously untrue, because no prolifer could read this story and not feel appalled at what this woman has gone through.
I also thought you might be interested in this article that was in The Nation http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/galpernand is about left wing opposition to human cloning on the basis that cloning requires a vast number of human eggs and therefore exploits women. I haven't blogged on it yet but I hope to shortly. Also CORE (www.corethics.org ) has done a lot of work to draw attention to the exploitation of women in Romania to give eggs for IVF. The testimonies of women from the recent seminar in the European Paliament are on the right hand side of the homepage.
best wishes
Fiona
Thank you Fiona, I'll check your link.
The abortion supporting media obviously refuse to print anything that portrays abortion in a bad light.
It is absurd even from their perspective as they are not making the pro choice argument any stronger, quite the contrary!
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