An unwelcome truth

THE BBC’s propaganda soap opera, Call The Midwife, is now a ceaseless megaphone for liberal causes. Last week it ventured for the third time into the topic of abortion.

Nurse Trixie, played by Helen George, pictured left, has been working in an expensive private clinic and discovered abortions are going on undercover. She reports this to the nuns of Nonnatus House, who – being opposed to abortion, as nuns generally are – are shocked and abandon plans to collaborate with the clinic. Yet in past episodes, an unrestrained case has been made for abortion, with the soap concentrating on the plight of the mother involved, showing a gruesome backstreet abortion in February 2013, and then another – this time fatal to the mother – in February 2019.

This was the cue for proabortion speeches by characters in the programme, but not a word against them, despite all the nuns in the cast.

This is odd. But perhaps the reason for it is that campaigners for abortion in this country have always liked to hide the fact that it was legal – under strict rules – before they got their way in 1967.

They don’t like the idea we might have settled on a more limited relaxation of the law, rather than the annual disposal of more than 200,000 unborn babies, often on dubious grounds, that we have now.

There are believed to have been 1,600 ‘therapeutic’ abortions in NHS hospitals as early as 1958, and 2,800 in 1962. More were unrecorded in private hospitals. Some researchers think there were as many as 21,400 legal abortions in England and Wales in 1966, the year Call The Midwife has now reached.

I think anything that touches on this neglected truth is unwelcome to the abortion industry and its supporters in the media.