UK (Monday, March 6, 2017, Gaudium Press) Britain’s second-largest abortion provider is offering abortions to women based on a 20-second conversation with call centre workers, a Daily Mail investigation has revealed.

An undercover reporter called Marie Stopes and asked for an abortion, saying: “I just don’t want to have the baby.” The call centre worker replied: “That will come under ‘emotional reasons'”. The exchange took 22 seconds.

The law says that two doctors can approve an abortion if “the continuance of the pregnancy would involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminated, of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman or any existing children of her family”.

Doctors must form this opinion “in good faith”. But the Mail described the brief consultation as “slapdash, production-line procedures”. It added: “Predictably, Marie Stopes is blasé about the fact that we have moved by stealth to a system where there is virtually abortion on demand, with almost no safeguards.”

A woman who had an abortion at a Marie Stopes clinic, Jade Stevens, said: “It was like a conveyor belt. Some [women] were really upset, they were crying but there was no support for them.” She added: “It was one in, and literally five minutes later, another one in. They were doing it so quickly.”

A former abortionist at a Marie Stopes clinic, Dr John Parsons, wrote in the Mail that he had felt uncomfortable because “the aim was always to save money”, sometimes at the expense of patients.

Last year, the provider suspended some services after the Care Quality Commission found a lack of oversight and implementation of standards.

Source Catholic Herald