A petition launched by the Society for the Safety of Unborn Kids (SPUC) is asking upon the Well being Secretary to deal with coercive abortion.
The petition calls coerced abortions “an usually unrecognised type of home abuse”.
The professional-life group highlights the case of a 16-year-old sufferer named solely as Hayley who was pressured into an abortion by her boyfriend and household.
The petition asks the Well being Secretary to urgently fee analysis into the realm of abortion coercion, and “in so doing recognise coerced abortion as a precedence for well being and social coverage shifting ahead”.
It has been launched after a current BBC ballot discovered that 15 per cent of British ladies had skilled strain or coercion to have an abortion that they didn’t need.
SPUC stated the info was “surprising” and demonstrated that “coercion in abortion selections is an pressing and rapid menace to ladies’s well being and wellbeing”.
Alithea Williams, Public Coverage Supervisor, stated, “Ever for the reason that Roe v Wade verdict was handed down, a lady’s proper to decide on has been a sizzling matter of dialog.
“Nevertheless, one thing that many pro-abortion advocates aren’t keen to speak about is that for a lot of ladies, abortion is not a alternative in any respect.”
