Thu Mar 17, 2022 – 9:50 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — According to a new study out of the UK commissioned by the BBC, 1 in 20 women ages 18-24 have been given abortion pills without their knowledge or consent by men seeking to kill their pre-born children. According to the survey of 1,000 women ages 18-44, 50% reported having experienced one type of “reproductive coercion” — which includes forcing someone into having an abortion.
One 28-year-old midwife who works at an abortion clinic told the BBC that she’s “very used to seeing women are being pressured into a termination,” and 15% of women reported that “they’d experienced pressure to terminate a pregnancy when they didn’t want to.”
This tragic news comes as no surprise to pro-life activists. Abortion is frequently a tool used by men to ensure that women can be sexually available to them without incurring the responsibility of a child. When women become pregnant with children they do not want, it is common for men to exert some form of pressure — emotional, psychological, or even physical — to convince them to have the babies aborted. With the pandemic making “at-home” abortions via pill
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