Abortions soar as careers come first

[Antimulticulture]

Abortions soar as careers come first
Rising rate among under-14s disappoints health officials
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1710854,00.html
July 28, 2005
By Alexandra Frean

THE abortion rate hit a record high last year,
according to government figures published
yesterday that also show a sharp rise in
terminations to girls aged under 14.

In 2004 the abortion rate rose by 2.1 per cent to
17.8 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, the highest
recorded, according to the Department of Health.
This resulted in 185,415 women resident in England
and Wales having an abortion, compared with
181,600 in 2003.

The overall abortion rate among girls aged under
16 fell from 3.9 to 3.7 per 1,000, but the number
of girls aged under 14 who had an abortion rose by
6 per cent last year to 157.

The findings provoked mixed reactions yesterday
from people working in the family planning field.
Some predicted that the rate would continue to
rise as women increasingly regarded having a
termination as a lifestyle choice.

Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British
Pregnancy Advisory Service, Britain’s leading
abortion provider, noted that the rate was highest
for those aged 18 to 24, at 31.9 terminations per
1,000 women.

This is part of a growing trend for women in this
age bracket opting to end unwanted pregnancies,
she said. Most women are at least 29 before they
have a child and the increase in abortion rates of
women aged 20 to 24 reflects that.

“Women today want to plan their families and, when
contraception fails, they are prepared to use
abortion to get back in control of their lives,”
Ms Furedi said.

“Motherhood is just one among many options open to
women and it is not surprising that younger women
want to prioritise other things. We should stop
seeing abortion as a problem and start seeing it
as a legitimate and sensible solution to the
problem of unwanted pregnancy.”

[Ed. What a selfish, bitter, sickening, f****d up,
worthless piece of leftist garbage this "MS" Furedi
is - she should be aborted immediately...]

She added that nowadays women who do want children
want fewer of them later in life. Marriage was decreasing
in popularity and unmarried couples were more likely
than married couples to end an unplanned
pregnancy, even if they were living together.

Ms Furedi said that women, particularly those in
the professional classes, were increasingly
reluctant to take breaks that could hinder their
careers.

[Ed. They are nothing more than tomboys. Fed this
crap by the likes of "MS" Furedi, who probably dried
up years ago herself, until they start to believe
that women are not required for the continuation of
our civilisation...]

A spokeswoman for the Department of Health said
that it was disappointed with the overall rise in
abortions. She said: “We are working hard to
reduce the demand for abortions by improving
access to contraception and have committed an
extra £40 million to improve access to
contraceptive services.” She said that the
department would soon start a public information
campaign to educate young people on the importance
of safer sex as part of the Government’s strategy
to decrease teenage pregnancies.

Anne Weyman, chief executive of the Family
Planning Association, agreed that the figures
highlighted the urgent need to improve NHS
contraceptive services.

She also noted that the figures showed encouraging
improvements to abortion services, which meant
that more abortions (82 per cent in 2004, compared
with 80 per cent in 2003) were being funded by the
NHS.

This also enabled more women to have early
abortions. In 2004, some 56 per cent of NHS
abortions were carried out before ten weeks of
gestation, up from 52 per cent in 2003.

Commentators were divided, however, about the
significance of changes to the under-16 abortion
rate, noting that as the numbers involved are so
low, small increases or decreases in cases can
produce big percentage swings.

The rate of abortions carried out because of the
risk that a child would be born with a disability
remained at 1 per cent. The figure was 1,900 in
2004, compared with 1,950 in 2003.

The figures also show that 42 women had
terminations at 28 weeks or more gestation last
year, compared with 49 women the year before.
There were 18 cases that involved pregnancies of
32 weeks or more, compared with 22 in 2003.

[Ed. We need a Feminine Movement -- FAST!]

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Post by Antimulticulture
Abortions soar as careers come first
Rising rate among under-14s disappoints health officials

I suppose the Health Ministry would support out-of-wedlock sprog-spewing for
fun and profit. I'm surprised the author of this article hasn't been cited
for some Macphersonish "hate speech" violation: First one out of the chute
and it'll be a Jamaican-fathered mulatto, with a Gambian-sired aunt or uncle
being diapered and potty-trained at the same time, as the European welfare
state and "multiculturalism" collide. I just love articles like this,
because without the Internet, we'd never get to hear the middle-class
reactions to this interracial, multigenerational fecundity on the other side
of the pond. When read from a TNB point of view, each paragraph --
especially the last -- had me in stitches. Maybe this old boy could make
some guest "commentaries" on Fox......
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Mother-to-be Amy, 12, rises above it all

By Tom Utley

Sometimes I think that people such as Amy Crowhurst and her mum behave as
they do just for the joy of enraging the middle classes. Amy is the
12-year-old who announced to the world yesterday that she is four months
pregnant after a one-night stand with a 15-year-old Jamaican boy, whose name
she didn't quite catch.

She is thoroughly pleased with her condition, because it means that she will
not have to go to school. Her mother, Rose, doesn't seem much put out by it,
either, although she admitted that she was surprised, "because she knows all
about condoms and that".

Amy, who has piercings in her nose, ears and belly-button, had confided to
her mother that she had been missing her periods. "But I put that down to
smoking," said Rose, who knew that her daughter puffed away like billy-o.
"She is still a giggly little 12-year-old at heart. But she's mature for her
age and I'm sure she'll be a good mum."

Rose's insouciance may be partly explained by the fact that she is no slouch
herself when it comes to popping out babies. She has nine children, of whom
the youngest, four months old, is the product of a fling with a man who has
since returned to his wife and children in the Gambia.

You will not be surprised to learn that she brings up her brood at the
public expense, having been abandoned by the father of her first eight
sprogs three years ago, when he left to shack up with another woman.

All in all, you will agree, the Crowhursts fall a degree or two short of the
average Daily Mail reader's idea of a model family.

But I refuse to be angry with them. There is something magnificent about
both mother and daughter and the way that they shrug off every calamity that
life throws at them as just one of those things.

Let me make it absolutely clear, right now, that I do not think it a good
idea for 12-year-old girls to get pregnant. I was tempted to say that I did,
but I know from the many letters that readers are kind enough to send me
that some people cannot always see my tongue in my cheek, even when I am
pushing it so hard that it hurts. It is a rotten idea - very bad for the
mother, who loses her own childhood, and dreadful for the child, who has to
suffer being brought up by someone who is not ready for the task.

But I give Amy and her mother high marks for taking the whole thing in their
stride - and particularly Amy, for refusing to have an abortion after she
had seen the scan of her child in her womb.

I have no daughters myself, but I know that I would be absolutely horrified
if I discovered that my 12-year-old smoked, or that she had had her
belly-button pierced - let alone that she had fallen pregnant by a boy whose
name she had not bothered to ask. But for Amy and her mum, these little
trials are just a part of life, which must be got on with.

Nor can I get angry about the £185 a week that Mrs Crowhurst receives in
state handouts to bring up her vast brood. As I never tire of pointing out,
Britain is in desperate need of children to look after us all in our old
age.

It is ludicrous to say that the Crowhursts are a drain on the economy, since
people are the economy. Money is just paper or metal, or numbers on a
screen. It is a metaphor for human activity, no more.

The childless spinster who squirrels away millions of pounds for her old age
cannot eat her money. She needs other people to have children, who will grow
up to convert her money by their labour into food, clothes, housing and
healthcare.

The wonder for me is that anybody can possibly afford to bring up nine
children on a measly £185 a week. If somebody set up a company producing
computers one hundredth part as sophisticated or useful as a human being,
the Government would hand over millions of pounds in investment grants. But
poor Mrs Crowhurst and her daughter have to get by, week by week, on the
price of a meal for two at the Ivy.

Let us have none of that nonsense, by the way, about this being an
overcrowded planet, unable to feed its existing population. Overpopulation
is a philosophical impossibility, for the brutal reason that starving people
die. Mercifully, there is more than enough food on the planet to go round,
and the capacity to produce it 10 times over.

The heart-rending famine in Ethiopia has nothing to do with overpopulation,
and only a little to do with the drought. It is all about the stupid way in
which the world orders its economy, and the propensity of backward countries
to engage in futile wars.

Anybody who believes that the world is overcrowded should just think what
would happen if we lined up half the population of India against a wall and
shot them. The remaining half would be poorer and hungrier, not richer and
fatter.

I have a hunch that Amy Crowhurst will turn out to be a good parent, as her
own mother predicts - loving, tolerant, and with a lesson or two to pass on
to her child from her own mistakes. But if I am wrong, and she finds that
she cannot cope, she will still be performing a public service.

Think of all those tens of thousands of gay couples, yearning to adopt
children, whom Kenneth Clarke gets so worked up and wet eyed about - so
worked up that he is prepared to put the future of the Tory party in
jeopardy on their behalf. Somebody has got to churn out the little blighters
to satisfy the demand. Sure as hell, Eric and Martin will not be able to
manage it on their own

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Under-14 girls don't have "careers" to be disrupted by childbirth!
This isn't an issue of a middle manager who just can't take months off
without losing her job - or at least her position in her company.

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