A prominent British politician who has praised his mother publicly for rejecting abortion keeps voting to allow other mothers to abort their unborn children.
An article at The Christian Institute this week questioned the contradictory views of Shadow Health Minister Wes Streeting on abortion.
An MP for Ilford North since 2015, Streeting has a consistent pro-abortion voting record. England allows abortions for any reason up to 24 weeks, but the country also allows unborn babies to be aborted at any point in pregnancy if they have been diagnosed with a “serious” health problem. Abortions also are taxpayer-funded.
Streeting supports these laws, even though he knows firsthand their impact. Women and girls are pressured into abortions and their children’s lives are violently destroyed in the womb. It almost happened when his own mother was pregnant with him, according to the pro-life organization.
“My mum had an appointment booked for an abortion,” Streeting, 40, told The Times in a recent interview. “She decided she wasn’t going to go through with it, but she knew she was going to come under enormous pressure from her mum and my dad, who wasn’t ready to be a father at the age of 17.”
He praised his mother for going against the “family consensus” to abort him. On the morning of her appointment, he said she cooked herself a full English breakfast and ate it – an excuse to skip her abortion appointment.
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“When my nan came in and said, ‘It’s time to go,’ she said, ‘I can’t. They told me I shouldn’t have anything for breakfast on the day of the procedure,’” Streeting said. “It was an extraordinary act of courage and defiance.”
The MP recognized how his mother’s courage spared his life, but he does not share that sympathy for other unborn babies.
Responding, Colin Hart, director of The Christian Institute, said Streeting is widely acknowledged to be one of the most talented politicians in the Labour Party.
“He’s a gifted communicator and has risen through the ranks quickly. He is even tipped to be a future Labour leader,” Hart said. “Yet if his mother had gone for her abortion, he would not be with us. It’s a sad irony then that he is such a staunch defender of abortion.”
More than 10 million unborn babies have been aborted in England, Scotland and Wales since the country legalized abortion in 1968, and, according to Right To Life UK, abortion numbers have increased in recent years.
