It wasn't meant to be this way, it never was. England wasn't meant to have abortion on demand.
When Dr. Aleck Bourne performed an abortion on a 14-year old rape victim in 1938, he did so because he felt she would suffer great mental anguish if the pregnancy continued. That led doctors to perform more and more abortions and finally to the Abortion Act of 1967 which stated that if two doctors agree that continuing a pregnancy would be injurious of a woman's health, the pregnancy may be terminated.
And many decades after, I see a comment on a website that described how a 16-year old girl had been taken for an abortion, and was giggly afterwards from the sedation when her friend and her friend's mother took her to lunch. The writer was defending her view that abortion was no big deal.
Dr. Bourne did not anticipate that abortion would ever become an OK thing to do. Much later he saw that abortion on these grounds became abortion on demand. He became a founder of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.
But Hard Cases make Bad Law.
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