Two statistics in the public domain are, each in their own way, startling. One, the mounting figure of Covid 19 deaths in the UK, now standing at over 45,000. The other, the number of abortions carried out in the UK in 2019 – over 209,000. The former gets daily media attention while the latter is virtually ignored. Why this contrast?
Could it be that our reluctance as a society to have straight conversations about death is one way of understanding this conundrum.
On the one hand, with Covid 19 we are very focussed on saving people from the ravages of…
