Parish Priest laments Abortion Act

This past weekend saw the 40th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act that has acted as a catalyst to a huge increase in the number of abortions carried out. Lamenting the loss of life, Parish Priest of Saint Joseph’s, Heywood, Father Paul Daly said: “6,900,000 is a lot of lives taken away.

“If we had started tolling the bell at St. Joseph's, Heywood, at midnight on 27 October at one minute intervals for every child who has been aborted since the Abortion Act became law in Great Britain 40 years ago today, we would toll the bell for 13 years, 1 month, 14 days and 16 hours until 4pm on 11 December 2020.”

Father Daly added:  “As someone who was adopted at six weeks having been born to an unmarried woman (with father unknown on my pre-adoption birth certificate). I don't know the circumstances of my conception, whether planned, unplanned or maybe even forced by violence.

“I thank God I was born in 1965 and not after 1967.”