An infamous director at Marie Stopes was the author of guidance telling medics not to report illegal abortions, even when the life of a late-term unborn baby is at stake.
Guidance issued this week by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) told its members not to report illegal abortions to the police, even if an unborn baby’s life is at risk, as reported by SPUC.
“In considering whether there is a valid justification for breaching confidentiality to protect the safety of others”, the RCOG guidance stated, “the ‘safety of the fetus’ is not a valid reason because in law the fetus does not have personhood status”.
The guidance stated further that medics who do not comply with the guidance potentially face “fitness to practise proceedings”.
Now it has emerged that an infamous abortion idealogue, Dr Jonathan Lord, the medical director at MSI Reproductive Choices, authored the guidance.
Dr Lord, who also co-chairs the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP), has been accused of professional misconduct in the past that included misleading women in crisis pregnancies and providing “incorrect information” about abortion reversal therapy.
The director was also one of several pro-abortion idealogues slammed by Justice Pepperall for authoring an “inappropriate” letter seeking to influence the trial of Carla Foster. Foster was found guilty of falsely obtaining abortion drugs past the legal limit and ending the life of her unborn baby at around 32 to 34 weeks.
“An obscene conflict of interest”
SPUC’s Michael Robinson, Executive Director (Public Affairs and Legal Services), said: “There is an obscene conflict of interest in such RCOG guidance being authored by one of the UK’s most infamous abortion idealogues, a so-called professional who has faced calls for an investigation into alleged misconduct.
“Dr Lord has consistently shown contempt for women’s safety and the lives of their unborn children, whom he insists aren’t persons at all, even at nine months. Now he actively threatens the practise of medics who intercede on behalf of mothers and the babies they carry.
“By advising against reporting to the police, the RCOG undermines the public’s trust in the medical profession and the legal system itself.”
End “disastrous” DIY home abortion scheme NOW
A pro-abortion academic recently admitted that DIY home abortion is to blame for the rise in arrests of women like Foster.
“Without being able to present in front of a medical professional some of the basic checks weren’t happening”, Dr Claire Pierson told Grazia Daily. “That’s where some of these prosecutions have emerged from.”
It is currently illegal to have a DIY abortion at home after ten weeks, while abortion is legal for up to 24 weeks in the UK. Chemical abortion (pills) accounted for 86% of all abortions in England and Wales between January and June 2022, of which 54% took place at home.
Government data recently revealed that in 2021 abortion pills had a complication rate of 33% for women 13 to 19 weeks pregnant, rising to 48% for aborted pregnancies over 20 weeks.
SPUC has called for an immediate end to the Government’s “disastrous” DIY home abortion scheme.