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NHS abortion scandal highlights Church leaders’ failure ‘to speak up’, say pro-life activists

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The UK’s pro-life movement is calling on Catholic bishops to speak out more publicly and effectively against a culture that sees women being pressurised by medical staff to have abortions.

The move comes after two mothers ended their pregnancies following Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH), one of the UK’s largest hospital teaching organisations, mistakenly informing them that their unborn babies had serious genetic conditions.

“The Church must accept its own part in this terrible situation, in which clergy and lay faithful have failed to speak up – through fear, discomfort or ignorance,” Isabel Vaughan-Spruce, a pro-life advocate and co-director for March for Life UK, told OSV News.

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