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The RCOG has given evidence to the select committee and the Minister will use the evidence given to her by the RCOG to provide the foundation for her answers.
A quick look at the make up of the RCOG committee is illuminating. It consists of representatives from pro-abortion groups (I refuse to use the terminology pro-choice) and abortion providers, for example, BPAS, which carries out over half of all abortions undertaken in the UK is an advisor, as is Marie Stopes International. Both clinics earn a considerable amount of revenue from the government for carrying out the lion’s share of 200,000 abortions per year.
Kate Guthrie is an advisor to the RCOG committee who told the Select committee this week, when asked if she thought anything had changed to bring the upper level down from 24 weeks, that “My understanding is that there have been no great advances” – therefore no change.
She then said on the Dispatches programme the following evening that she personally won’t abort a baby over 20 weeks gestation. When asked if this was because it was too much like a baby? She said “I suppose so.” How does she sleep at night?
Despite using a heavily weighted pro abortion committee to draw up the guidelines the RCOG has made its most cynical mistake on its own website.
Dr Sunny Anand is the world’s leading expert in foetal pain. Until Dr Anand published the results of his studies at Oxford in the 1980s, neonates were operated on without anaesthetic, as it was assumed they could not feel pain. It was as a result of Anand’s work that all babies of whatever gestation at which they are born now receive anaesthesia for surgery. Any self respecting neo-natologist or pain expert knows about Dr Anand, his work has been reported world wide.
Dr Anand has now produced a report which states that a foetus can feel pain from quite early on. He has done this in a very scientific, controlled, peer reviewed manner. However, that’s bad news for the abortion industry, very bad news indeed and therefore it appears that various organisations are choosing to believe that Anand’s recently published work does not exist, the RCOG amongst them.
Read what the RCOG has said about the world’s leading expert on neonatal pain on their web site, and let’s see how long it takes for the page to be removed.
If proof were needed with regard to how hot the kitchen is becoming for the pro-abortion groups, this denial of Dr Anand and the statement from the Minister today, is surely it.
Nadine Dorries is the Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire
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