A distressed mother has contacted an agony aunt for advice after her pregnant daughter said she wants an abortion “to concentrate on her career”. The reply said that the daughter should contact an abortion provider for “impartial advice”.
The mother contacted the Daily Mail’s Dear Caroline agony aunt column to say, “My 22-year-old daughter is pregnant from a short-term relationship and she is set on an abortion. I am in despair as I want her to keep the baby, and I don’t believe she is thinking clearly…
“She also says that she is too young and needs to concentrate on her career. I agree she is young, but I could offer her almost full-time help and I feel that the baby would bring such joy that she would soon forget how it began life.
“I was only able to have one child – her – and I feel that she may be throwing away a precious chance to have a baby.”
In reply, the agony aunt, Caroline West-Meads, advised the mother to get the daughter to contact the abortion provider British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) for “impartial advice”.
BPAS carried out 106,424 abortions in twelve months in 2023/24 in the UK, according to its annual report. It also supports the abortion of unborn babies diagnosed with Down’s syndrome, as well as buffer zones that prevent citizens from offering help to women in crisis pregnancies.
The agony aunt also appeared to reduce the mother’s own “distress” to a result of her past miscarriages, not the loss of the innately valuable child threatened by the abortion, “which is why your daughter’s decision, and the loss of a potential grandchild feels so painful”.
Earlier this month, SPUC reported on the story of a US woman, also in her twenties, who intended to have an abortion because she and her boyfriend weren’t “ready” to give up their “no kids” lifestyle.
“I’m extremely nervous and I’m not sure what to expect when I go in”, she stated on Reddit. “I’m not sure how my body is going to react when I take it… I just hate myself so much because we are going through something so big together and I just feel like this is our miracle baby.”
There were over a quarter of a million abortions in England and Wales in 2022, many of them undertaken by BPAS, either at abortion facilities or via the pill-by-post scheme, of which 61 per cent were taken entirely at home.
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