Left-wing boss who claims abortion is just another form of birth control

THE ‘bullying’ campaign against Boots is being led by one of Britain’s biggest abortion organisations.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) carries out around 60,000 terminations a year – and receives almost £30million a year from the NHS.

The charity has courted controversy, largely thanks to its chief executive, Ann Furedi. Earlier this month she said abortion should be regarded as no more than another form of birth control.

Termination of a pregnancy should not be seen as exceptional but merely as ‘ birth control that women need when their regular method lets them down’, she said. In 14 years running BPAS, the former Communist revolutionary has repeatedly claimed that abortion is routine and no more significant than buying a condom or taking the Pill.

Mrs Furedi once called it ‘a positive sign’ that half of pregnancies among girls under 18 end in abortion. Last year she called for the morning-after pill to be sold for no more than £10 with no need for a consultation.

It emerged earlier this year that more than £500,000 of public money had been handed to a BPAS trustee to write a book about the history of abortion in Britain. The Arts and Humanities Research Council gave £512,000 to Professor Sally Sheldon to write a ‘biographical study’ of the 1967 Abortion Act.

The anti-abortion charity Life said yesterday that BPAS was opposed to action to bring down pregnancy rates because it earned so much from terminations.

Last night a BPAS spokeswoman said: ‘BPAS exists to help women avoid unwanted pregnancy in the first place, and provides them with safe abortion services when contraception fails.

‘Emergency contraception gives women a second chance of avoiding unwanted pregnancy when their regular method lets them down – and we will do everything in our power to ensure they have swift, affordable access to it.’