Disgrace of abortion clinic bonus scheme
Widdecombe
IF I were still the MP for Maidstone I would today be tabling some pretty probing questions to Jeremy Hunt. The Care Quality Commission carried out an investigation into that town’s Marie Stopes clinic and found that its staff were being paid bonuses for women who went through with abortions.
Indeed inspectors found evidence that in all 70 Marie Stopes clinics in the country there was a policy of calling women who had decided against abortions to offer a new appointment.
Whatever one’s views may be on abortion it is surely abhorrent that such a procedure involving the life of a child, the emotional wellbeing of the mother and long-term consequences if the wrong decision is taken, should ever be a cause for profit. It is doubly appalling when, as inspectors noted, girls under 16 are involved.
None of this will come as any surprise to charities such as Life, which for years has picked up the pieces of the impact on women who had been pressured into abortion as well as offering hope to women who felt that it was the only way out of a difficult situation.
ONE told me that she could not walk past the door of the British Pregnancy Advice Service and took a detour to get to work every day for months after her consultation because she had felt so unhappy at the way she was treated when she said she was uncertain about abortion.
The Department of Health may not listen to organisations such as Life but it should not ignore its own inspectors. We have already had scandals with abortion clinics getting doctors to pre-sign forms in bulk instead of seeing the patient. Separate revelations included aborted children being born alive and left to die.
This time the abortion industry’s blatant disregard for the law should not be ignored. It is time the offending clinics were closed down. IT is pointless lambasting Oxford colleges for not admitting students from poor backgrounds. They will admit only students who reach their rigorous standards so the problem lies with the schools, which are failing to prepare pupils properly and maximise potential. A few more grammar schools might solve that one. I DO not object to some police playing on the dodgems at the end of a week patrolling a fair. I suspect nobody else would either if only we all believed that when we needed the police they were there, but they are not.
They will investigate “hate crimes”, playground insults and golliwogs in shops but then state publicly that they haven’t the resources to deal with shoplifting. They are rarely visible on the streets LAST week I watched the programme Holy Orders, Bad Habits in which a group of five wildly partying girls spend a few weeks in a convent. All five were used to a life of sex, drink, partying and endless shopping. None of them had an iota of shame. “This is the longest I’ve been without sex for ages,” announced one. Er… she had been there only a few days. Another began putting on
POLICE CAN HAVE FUN ON THE DODGEMS AS LONG AS THEY DON’T DODGE THEIR DUTY
and are slow to take action over anti-social behaviour but quick enough arresting any citizen who hits back. A chemist announces he is spending £1,000 a month to employ an ex-marine as a security guard because the police have been so useless at dealing with a bunch of intimidating yobs.
Remembrance Sunday parades have been cancelled because the police say they have not the manpower to look after them. Meanwhile police stations where you can hand in lost property and report anything are almost as extinct as the dodo.
Very little of this is down to the constables who joined the force (or service as they call it these days) in order to fight crime and who often display real courage in doing so. It comes from above: from chief constables who have become fixated on political correctness and statistics; from ministers who set meaningless targets; from the Government which can fund endless initiatives on transgenderism, racial surveys and aid for foreign pop groups but which cannot grasp the necessary priority which should be given to policing.
The victims are the law-abiding who fortify their houses and businesses with bars and alarms and who increasingly look anywhere for help except to the police.