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The Queen has always been said to place great importance on her faith, and many of her public statements seem to reflect that. For me, however, there will always be one enormous black mark on her long reign: her giving of Royal Assent to the 1967 Abortion Act, which has resulted in the violent destruction of more than six million pre-born boys and girls.

I can see many of my monarchist friends begin to roll their eyes. The Queen couldn’t have refused to sign without causing an enormous crisis, they could rightfully say. Why must it always be about abortion? many others would ask in tired tones. (I heard the same complaint when our anti-abortion truth truck crossed in front of Prince William and Princess Kate’s motorcade at the 2013 Calgary Stampede as they waved to the cheering crowds.) But to dismiss that assent as morally meaningless is to ignore what abortion is. Six million of Her Majesty’s tiniest subjects were cruelly snuffed out and discarded for the crime of being inconvenient, and regardless of her personal views on the matter, this was done with her official permission.

Not all European monarchs reacted to the undeniably intense pressure to rubber-stamp royal legitimacy onto abortion legislation in this fashion. In 1990, for instance, King Baudouin I of Belgium notified his cabinet that he could not, in good conscience, give his Royal Assent to proposed laws permitting abortion. In Belgium as in most other constitutional monarchies Royal Assent was considered to be a mere formality. But King Baudouin’s conscience did not permit him to put his signature on what he believed to be an unjust and immoral law, and his government was thus forced to come up with a novel solution. The New York Times, in an article titled “Belgian King, unable to sign Abortion Law, takes day off,” recorded how the strange situation played out:

The civilian Government temporarily suspended King Baudouin I from power today after he declared that he could not, in good conscience as a Roman Catholic, sign a new law permitting abortion.

After declaring the King ”unable to govern,” the Cabinet assumed the King’s powers and promulgated the abortion law, which was published in the official gazette. And it called the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate back from Easter vacation for a special session on Thursday.

The lawmakers will be asked to vote on the proposition that the 59-year-old King is once again able to govern.

The following day, the king was promptly reinstated. Unlike other European monarchs, including Elizabeth II, he had avoided becoming complicit in legalizing abortion—because he refused to abandon his principles.

https://thebridgehead.ca/2016/06/13/her-majesty-queen-elizabeths-abortion-regime/