BY Ian Dunn | February 14 | 
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Pro-life victory in High Court
Mr Justice Supperstone rules against medical abortions at home
A bid by pro-abortion campaigners to allow abortions to be carried out in homes has been rejected by the High Court this morning.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service had claimed that the law should now allow medical abortion to be self-administered at home by taking drugs to chemically induce the process.
However lawyers acting for Health Secretary Andrew Lansley opposed the move, which would have applied to Scotland, England and Wales.
Mr Justice Supperstone, sitting at the High Court in London, ruled in favour of the health secretary today and dismissed the BPAS’s case.
Evidence submitted by Society for the Protection of Unborn Children played a prominent part in Mr Justice Supperstone’s judgment, an SPUC spokeswoman said.
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Thank Heaven for a sensible judge and a sensible decision.
The proponents of abortion way back used the rationale that their Act would put an end to dangerous ‘backstreet’ abortions – would the provision of ‘home/self administered’ abortifacients not have been perilously close to a return to that situation?
In addition, many doctors in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology refuse to perform abortions on conscience grounds, but they would have been the ones called upon to clear up, and possibly save lives should any ‘DIY’abortion go wrong.