The Catholic Herald: NHS Abortion Scandal Highlights Church Leaders’ Failure ‘to Speak Up’, Say Pro-Life Activists

The Catholic Herald, February 20, 2025

The UK’s pro-life movement is calling on Catholic bishops to speak out more publicly and effectively against a culture that sees women being pressurised by medical staff to have abortions.

The move comes after two mothers ended their pregnancies following Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), one of the UK’s largest hospital teaching organisations, mistakenly informing them that their unborn babies had serious genetic conditions.

“The Church must accept its own part in this terrible situation, in which clergy and lay faithful have failed to speak up – through fear, discomfort or ignorance,” Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a pro-life advocate and co-director for March for Life UK, told OSV News.

The BBC reports that Carly Wesson terminated her pregnancy at 14 weeks after being told that her child had Patau’s syndrome. The genetic disorder often results in miscarriage, stillbirth or the baby dying shortly after delivery. Ninety per cent of children born with Patau’s syndrome die within the first year. …

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