Queen Elizabeth's Cousin, Lord Nicholas Windsor, Boldly Proclaims Right to Life

Hilary White : Oct 13, 2011
LifeSiteNews.com

"It hit me in the stomach that terminating a pregnancy equaled none other than the destruction of a human being. It knocked the wind out of me the first time, as it does every single time I think of it." -Lord Nicholas Windsor

(Rome, Italy)—There is no such thing as a "right" to abortion, Lord Nicholas Windsor said recently in the Daily Telegraph. Lord Windsor, the youngest son of the Duke of Kent and the first cousin once removed to Queen Elizabeth II [added] that the cost of abortion "is too high because the cost is paid in innocent life."

Lord Windsor and Lord Alton of Liverpool denounced the "subversive" campaign by UN organizations that "bully" countries into accepting abortion as an international human right. The two will tell a meeting of the House of Lords that this campaign must be stopped to "uphold the right to life of unborn children" that is guaranteed by numerous international agreements.

"Frankly, officials and politicians in developing countries are being bullied into writing such a right to abortion into their domestic law," Lord Windsor wrote.

In his op-ed piece, Lord Windsor frankly denounces legal abortion, enshrined as a right in Britain's 1967 Abortion Act. Abortion, he said, is now defended as a solution to unplanned pregnancies, particularly among young girls.

"But it's not a just solution for all concerned. It leaves out of the picture the consequences for 'the entity,' about whose nature we've disagreed with so passionately in the last decades."

The "interminable philosophical debates" on the moral status of the unborn, he wrote, are "sheer sophistry." "Who's kidding whom here?" The reality of abortion "became visceral for me once I started thinking hard about the subject."

"It hit me in the stomach that terminating a pregnancy equaled none other than the destruction of a human being. It knocked the wind out of me the first time, as it does every single time I think of it. That's why we take this thing seriously, if you want to know. We were the first generation that really were vulnerable in the womb. Surely, the womb should be the safest place in the world to be. ...Not anymore."

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