TV advertising for abortion is unnecessary, discriminatory and an abuse of UK taxpayers’ money states a leading Christian medical blog
Chritian Medical Comment reports: Private clinics that undertake abortions for profit will be allowed to advertise their services on television and radio for the first time, watchdogs ruled last week.
now, only not-for-profit organisations have been permitted to use television and radio to advertise advice on unplanned pregnancies, although none have so far been able to afford the huge costs involved in doing so.
But now under the new rules, announced yesterday by the Committee of Advertising Practice (CAP) and the Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP), commercial enterprises will be allowed to enter the market. This means that Britain will be promoting abortion adverts at the very same time that Russia is restricting them.
The new regulations will take effect on 30 April.
There are more than 35 private hospitals in England which currently offer abortion ‘services’, but the overwhelming majority are carried out by Marie Stopes International (MSI) and British Pregnancy Advice Service (BPAS). These are the two organisations that will mainly benefit from the new rules.
Both MSI an BPAS already employ aggressive marketing tactics to promote their services. Furthermore much of their income, presumably including that which will now be spent on advertising, comes from tax revenues.
In 2010 the NHS funded 93% of all abortions carried out by the ‘private sector’ – 111,775 of the total number 196,109 carried out in England and Wales that year (see DOH report, p13). This stranglehold on abortion funding was achieved under the last government.
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