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BPAS responds to Scottish Cardinal’s political speech on abortion
Published 31 May 2007
BPAS responds to Scottish Cardinal’s political speech on abortion
Please find below comment from the sexual healthcare charity and abortion provider BPAS (the British Pregnancy Advisory Service) relating to comments by Cardinal Keith O’Brien in Scotland calling on MSPs and MPs to change abortion law and to stop allowing health services to participate in abortion.
Ann Furedi, Chief Executive of BPAS, the UK’s leading sexual healthcare charity which also provides abortion care for 55,000 women each year, said today:
‘Abortion is a safe, legal and medically legitimate procedure, essential in safeguarding women’s reproductive health. Women should be able to make their own choices about their bodies and their future.
‘At BPAS, we offer a non-judgemental service. We see many couples and women for contraception and abortion treatment who are active Catholics. It is quite clear that not everyone who shares the Catholic faith with the Cardinal agrees with him on this issue.
‘Religious dignitaries clearly speak from a deep personal moral opposition to abortion when making speeches such as today’s, which seeks to lobby Holyrood and Westminster, doctors, medical schools and Catholic voters.
‘The Cardinal has every right to hold his views. He obviously doesn’t have to have an abortion, or provide one.’
ENDS