Germaine Greer: Legalised abortion ALWAYS was the handmaiden of the IVF industry!

As UK politicians stampede to try to make abortion easier, it is worth revisiting the beginning of the abortion debate in the 1960s with no less a figure than world famous feminist Germaine Greer.

You may hear all sorts of arguments against abortion from people you might expect: Socially conservative voices, Catholic voices and so on.

But Germaine Greer’s voice is perhaps not what some people expect because back in the 1960s, the young Greer could not see that the politicians were taking her and other well-meaning people for a ride when they marched in protest in favour of legalised abortion.

Greer, like most people, has modified her views. None of us has the cynicism about professional politicians we ought to have when we are young.

Speaking at the Hay Festival in the UK in 2015, the world’s pre-eminent living feminist revealed her revised opinion about the abortion debate:

‘I have been thinking about this lately, and I have got a suspicion, which I need to investigate properly, that we got legalised abortion precisely because the fertility industry needed it. It wasn’t us. It certainly wasn’t us.

“‘We could have marched until our feet fell off and they wouldn’t have bothered to give us access to abortion. They were the ones who wanted to be able to terminate pregnancies and manipulate the products of conception at will.’”

When you “manipulate the process of conception” to abort, you are, as night follows day, going to “manipulate the process of conception” such that people leave it too late in life to conceive naturally.

What is important is not just the argument that Greer makes, but that she – as such a famous feminist – is the one making it.

There is extra weight to her words given her revised opinion.

The Times wrote of her speech at the Hay Festival:

‘“Speaking about Liberal Democrat politician David Steel, who was responsible for introducing the Abortion Act to parliament, she added: ‘He is a politician. He could only make an act after the fertility barons told him what they needed. They are very powerful the medico-legal establishment.’”

What Germaine Greer has noticed since the 1960s is that we have ended up in a world in which large numbers of women queue up at one hospital door to abort healthy babies, while at the other end of the hospital, large numbers queue up to pay big sums of money to put their children’s health at risk through sometimes unnecessary IVF.

And, rather conveniently, a small number of people are making a lot of money from it. It is as if all this were planned.

IVF was not fully developed in 1967, but the 1967 Abortion Act is what put rocket fuel behind the rise of IVF.

Overnight, a need had been created.

As night follows day, the fertility industry would expand itself for all the people who were going to use the new law to disrupt their natural reproductive life cycle.

And if you listen to people like leading fertility doctor Robert Winston, IVF is the high-cost, high-risk version of fertility treatment.

If you look through the publicly available accounts of listed healthcare companies and look for the profit contribution from the fertility units, you will see they are a licence to print money.

If you think that exploitation was not on the cards from the moment the 1967 Abortion Act was passed, you simply have not been paying attention over the past few years to the Covid narrative.

The Act was passed in 1967 and the world’s first IVF baby, Louise Brown, was born in the UK in 1978.

That passage of time, a decade, sounds like a long time.

However, you have to understand the level of caution and circumspection that would have existed back then in relation to unleashing IVF.

But once the fertility industry had its hands on this money-spinning method called IVF, it seemed to lose any semblance of medical ethics.

This is Robert Winston being as polite and non-alarmist and non-libellous as he can be about fertility doctors: ‘Increasingly, people are offered the treatment most convenient to the doctor.’

One bright spot in all this is that Greer’s ideas are being echoed in the thinking parts of America, where a young lady called Alex Clark has been leading the fightback against the fertility industry.

Just as British lawmakers vote to try to decriminalise abortion for pregnant women, America is heading in the opposite direction.

In one headline, leftist website El País calls her: ‘Alex Clark, the anti-vaccine health and wellness influencer who helped Trump on the campaign trail’.

This is what Alex Clark said in her Young Women’s Leadership Speech for Turning Point USA in June 2023:

“Big Fertility knows that women like us who have just spent close to two decades climbing the ladder have money to spend and that we are desperate.

“The fertility industry is going to gamble on your potential misfortune for their profit. Plan accordingly.”

On Fox News after her Turning Point speech, Clark continued:

“Big Fertility knows that we are largely putting a prominence on girl bossing and putting your career first and putting off having a family. That is a business for them. That is a marketing tool. They want us to put off having a family so that we are going to have to spend big money in order to have that family later on after putting our career first for decades.”

Clark’s enemies are naturally apoplectic.

Leftist US website Media Matters whines: ‘Clark and Turning Point even sell stickers that read: “Birth Control, We’re Done.”

‘During her shows and on her Twitter and Instagram pages, Clark greatly over-exaggerates the risks of birth control, claiming it leads to myriad health problems and describing it as “poison.”’

The common denominator between the assisted dying bill, the latest vote in parliament on decriminalising abortion and the fast-growing IVF industry is that they all treat human life as a commodity.

It’s almost as if, just as Germaine Greer seemed to discover years after her pro-abortion marches, that it is not them working for us.

Rather, it is us working for them. From cradle to grave.

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