The Department of Health, claims that,

‘As Parliament has decided that abortions may lawfully be carried out in the circumstances specified in the Abortion Act 1967 (as amended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990), the Government believes that facilities for abortion treatment should be available.’

This raised the question of Department of Health's commitment to implementing in full the UDHRs and the Declaration on the Rights of the Child in regard to the unborn and so we questioned the Department of Health further.

United for Life wrote to the Department of Health on the 10th August 2006 to show : Why the Department of Health must oppose the killing of children by abortion, contraception, human embryo experimentation, IVF, human cloning and related activities; how such activities are modern forms of slavery, destroy the environment, and how Human Rights apply.

No group of humans can be treated as 'non-persons' and this includes the disabled, the elderly, slaves, Jews, the unborn or any other group, including human embryos.  Thus, no excuse can be made to exclude any group of humans from equal protection under law.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims these Rights as 'a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations' and that 'every individual and every organ of society ...shall strive ...to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance ...among the peoples of Member States.'  It is therefore United for Life's duty to call upon Department of Health to help promote legal protection for children before as well as after birth.

Read :  How Abortion Violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.