In her book, The Moral Case For Abortion, Ann Furedi argues abortions should be made as widely available as contraception and claims the method is just another means of birth control. Also, there is no moral difference between decisions on a termination and whether to get married or divorced.
Ann Furedi is the head of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, the country's biggest abortion clinic chain. She says there is nothing morally wrong with destroying a fetus reasoning that although abortion is considered an act of killing and admits that it is killing "a being that has no sense of life or death", reports Express.
The call for abortion on demand comes with the rise in the number of women seeking an abortion in England and Wales. There has been a decline in pregnancies among young women but an increase in older women having abortions with a partner already married. The number rose from 48 percent in 2005 to 70 percent in 2015. About 54 percent of women choosing abortion were already mothers.
Since 1990, legal abortion is allowed until 24 weeks of pregnancy. After then an abortion can only be carried out if the pregnancy is life-threatening or in cases of severe fetal abnormality. But Mrs. Ferudi's call for abortion is without time limits, as per Daily Mail.
The Royal College of Midwives was criticized carrying out an illegal abortion without consulting its members on the issue last month. Under the 1967 Abortion Act, abortion is legal if two doctors agree if a woman's pregnancy endangers her health or her existing children.
'The Moral Case For Abortion' book will be published next month and comes after the Department of Health statistics revealed abortion rates have increased among women over their 30s in the past decade. Mrs. Furedi is a former Marxist and magazine journalist; and in the 90s, she became an abortion campaigner. She has been BPAS chief executive since 2003, which carries out about one in three abortions in England and Wales.
