‘Young, British and Anti-Abortion’: BBC spotlights the pro-life movement

A documentary shining light on the growing number of young people holding pro-life views in the UK has recently aired on the BBC.

The film, ‘Young, British and Anti-Abortion’, explores the convictions of young campaigners who are bravely speaking out on behalf of the unborn and seeking to make abortion “unthinkable”.

The filmmaker described how “the number of Russell Group universities with the pro-life society has almost doubled in the last five years”.

Youth-led, youth focused

Eden McCourt, who uses Tik-Tok to raise awareness, founded Abortion Resistance – a youth-led, youth-focused pro-life organisation based in the UK.

She explained: “The mainstream media makes out that we’re all old, white, religious men – and we’re not.”

The campaigner continued: “I feel like the feminist movement has been hijacked by this idea that in order to be free, in order to be equal to men, we have to have the choice of abortion.”

women deserve so much better than abortion

But she added: “I don’t think equality for women looks like dead children.”

‘Failing women’

Also featuring in the documentary, Director of Great Britain’s Alliance of Pro-Life Students Madeline Page added: “I believe women deserve so much better than abortion.”

She added: “For women to feel like in order to progress in their career, in order to have a home or be in a stable financial situation, they have to have an abortion – we’re completely failing women.”

In April, Page required a police escort at Manchester University as protestors “screaming” abuse at her attempted to deny her access to the venue where she was scheduled to speak. After chairing a discussion on her pro-life beliefs, she was forced to return to a different location as it was “too dangerous” to go straight to her hotel.

Earlier this year, Manchester Pro-Life Society was forced to move location three times to complete its presentation, as hundreds of activists shouting chants such as “stay in there and die” and “you should be aborted” attempted to cancel the event.