The Arch Priestess Of Death: Dame Sarah Mullally

As of November 2025, the Archbishop-designate of Canterbury (soon to be the 106th, with enthronement pending in early 2026) is the Right Reverend Dame Sarah Mullally, former Bishop of London and ex-Chief Nursing Officer for England.

She is the first woman in history to hold this office, replacing Justin Welby who resigned amid scandal. Mullally, a liberal voice in an increasingly "progressive" Church of England establishment, has quickly positioned herself on contentious issues like the killing of children in the womb, and asylum-abusing migrants. The Church of England is, as "Yes, Minister" rightly observed, the "Conservative Party at prayer."

Scripture is clear: there is no case whatsoever for women priests, and men alone bear the responsibility of preaching. Where "female pastors" emerge, heresy invariably follows.

"Up-to-Birth" Decriminalisation

Labour's 2024-2025 government pushed through an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill (tabled by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi and passed in June 2025 by 379-137) that decriminalises abortion completely for the woman herself at any stage of pregnancy.

Her original amendment read:

For the purposes of the law related to abortion, including sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929, no offence is committed by a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy.

Antoniazzi's storytelling in Parliament beggars belief. Her arguments are so absurd a schoolchild could rebuke them.

One of my constituents discovered that she was pregnant at seven months—she had no symptoms. She was told that she was too late for an abortion.

This amendment means a woman can now self-abort (e.g., via pills or other means) right up to birth with no criminal penalty whatsoever — even for sex-selection, disability discrimination, or full-term termination. Pro-life groups rightly call this de facto "abortion up to birth" because it removes all legal deterrents against late-term self-induced abortions.

The Infant Life Preservation Act, which they wanted to repeal as "outdated," reads:

any person who, with intent to destroy the life of a child capable of being born alive, by any wilful act causes a child to die before it has an existence independent of its mother, shall be guilty of felony, to wit, of child destruction, and shall be liable on conviction thereof on indictment to penal servitude for life:

Moral Cowardice Dressed As Nuance

Mullally's response (issued when she was still Bishop of London) was tepid at best: she called for "compassion" for women in crisis while weakly noting the change "risks eroding safeguards" and "undermining the value of unborn life." She criticised the process (an amendment sneaked into another bill) but offered no outright condemnation of killing viable babies moments from birth.

Women facing unwanted pregnancies are confronted with the hardest of choices. Ultimately, they require compassion and care in order to support them fully in the heart-wrenching decision they must take. They should not be prosecuted.

However, decriminalising abortion can at the same time inadvertently undermine the value of unborn life. The amendment passed to the Crime and Policing Bill[*] may not change the 24-week abortion limit, but it undoubtedly risks eroding the safeguards and enforcement of those legal limits. Women suffering from coercion, or those who are victims of sexual or domestic abuse, would be the most vulnerable to the proposed change, which does not consider improvements to abortion care, nor address the inadequacies of the ‘pills by post’ assessments. These concerns are well set out in the letter signed by over 200 clergy published in the Telegraph this morning.

Considering any fundamental reform to this country’s abortion laws should not be done via an amendment to another Bill. There should be public consultation and robust Parliamentary process to ensure that every legal and moral aspect of this debate is carefully considered and scrutinised. We need a path that supports women, not one that puts them and their unborn children in the way of greater harm.

The official Church of England position (reaffirmed repeatedly) is principled opposition to abortion, recognising it as a grave evil except in the rarest cases (e.g., direct threat to the mother's life). Over 98% of UK abortions fall far outside those "strictly limited conditions" and are, by the Church's own historic teaching, morally wrong.

Scripture Condemns The High Priestess

There is no place for the lukewarm in Christian life, and it's abundantly clear what Christ says on "political" clergy in Revelation 3:

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

The Bible repeatedly condemns the killing of the innocent, i.e., the sinless (Jeremiah 7:6 and 22:17, Psalm 106:37-38, Proverbs 6:16-19, Isaiah 53:6, Luke 17:2 and Matthew 18:10,14).

Exodus 20:13 is clear:

You shall not murder.

The Sixth Commandment is absolute. The unborn child is a human person from conception, where unique DNA is formed:

Psalm 139:13-16:

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb... My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place.

Jeremiah 1:5:

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.

Psalm 127 specifically refers to children as a “gift of the Lord” and as a “reward.” We do not have the right to disrupt or destroy His plans. Abortion is a supremely arrogant act because it imposes a creature’s will over God’s.

New genetic life unquestionably begins at conception; abortion (foeticide) is the deliberate destruction of a soul God has already known and sanctified.

As a former chief nurse swearing oaths to "do no harm," Mullally knows the Hippocratic tradition forbids abortion. Yet she offers milquetoast words while babies capable of surviving outside the womb are legally disposable.