Pro Manipulated Choice

I found this rant quite astonishing: It's some chap called Sunny Hundal, who clearly has little time for people who have any religious beliefs about them, and it relates to some propsed changes to how abortion is organised in the UK.

The change is quite simple: It puts a stop to the situation where the NHS only funds an abortion at a clinic if the abortion goes ahead. Reason being fairly obvious: It makes it in the interests of the abortion clinic to go ahead with abortions.

Yet this is met with huge volumes of vitriol by Hundal who apparently from his comments doesn't care what others think of him.

Regardless of one's views on abortion (and as a Christian, it's quite hard to be in support of them), I find the vitriol directed towards this by pro-choice (which is an odd monicker for them given the attitutes displayed here) towards anyone who might just happen to tinker with the system in a way that could possibly just about with a pinch of salt be described as pro life is incredible.

The fact is, the current system is pro manipulated choice. And by defending the system, and attacking in such a hostile way the proposed changes, it seems that these people reveal that they are not pro choice after all. Pro choice people would favour a system where people made informed decisions, and were not being given advice by people for whom the financial incentive was to get them to say yes. If this was happening in financial markets, it's likely these same people would be in uproar.

My stance on abortion is that I can't force others to do the things I think are right, nor should I. But I would like people making such a life changing decision to be as well informed as possible, and it is clear that the current system cannot do that if clinics only get paid if people actually go ahead with an abortion.