Mother of one who’s married to Communist professor
ANN Furedi, a former Communist revolutionary and magazine journalist, has become an outspoken leader of the abortion industry.
In 14 years running the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, she has repeatedly challenged the belief that abortion is a last resort for desperate women who stand to suffer deeply if they go ahead with their pregnancies.
Instead, Mrs Furedi, 56, has promoted the idea that abortion is routine and no more significant than buying a condom or taking the Pill.
She once welcomed news that half of all pregnancies among girls under 18 end in abortion as ‘a positive sign’.
She is married to Frank Furedi, founder of the Revolutionary Communist Party and professor of sociology at Kent University, where she graduated. The couple have a 22-year-old son.
Before joining BPAS, she was a regular contributor to the party’s Living Marxism magazine.
The party faded at the end of the 1980s and Miss Furedi worked as a health writer for magazines including Cosmopolitan and Company, before becoming an abortion campaigner in the 1990s.
She has run BPAS since 2003 and, as its chief executive, earns around £165,000 a year.
Professor Furedi is one of the leading figures behind the Spiked website, on which his wife defended abortion on grounds of the sex of the unborn child.
In 2013 Mrs Furedi launched a High Court appeal to allow women to have abortions at home by taking a pill.