As the government moves to allow religious-linked organisations to provide abortion counselling, yesterday’s Newsnight report on the contents of a training manual used by the supposedly “independent” abortion advisers CareConfidential is an absolute must-see.
Before interviewing a woman who claims advice given to her by the group “was more like a sermon” than real counselling, Anna Adams provides a frightening quote from the manual itself:
“Abortion is undoubtedly a wickedness that grieves God’s heart. As we study the Bible we see that life begins within the womb when the human egg is fertilised and then implanted. The deliberate destruction of the developing child at any stage from this point is to deny the life of the human being — a most grievous sin in the eyes of God …”
Watch the full report below:
These revelations follow discoveries by “mystery shoppers” at Education for Choice earlier this month, which exposed a number of CareConfidential advisers as drastically ill-informed, to the point of scaremongering.
Is this what Nadine Dorries means by “independent counselling”?
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this is the opposite of my experience in training with an organisation affiliated to them. The course in unbiased, in the middle ground between pro-choice and pro-life.
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