Pictured: Professor Cathy Warwick
A midwives’ leader who backed abortion on demand has been made a dame.
Professor Cathy Warwick, the former chief executive of the Royal College of Midwives, caused an outcry among her 30,000 members last year.
Without consulting them, she decided the college would back a campaign to remove abortion from criminal law.
Unknown to midwives and the public, Professor Warwick was also a trustee of the country’s largest abortion provider, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.
She signed up the college to support a BPAS campaign to decriminalise abortion, provoking widespread concern among midwives. Thousands signed a petition describing the policy as a ‘disgraceful betrayal’ of their profession.
Professor Warwick, 65, is already a CBE, having been honoured for services to healthcare in 2006.
She stood down as chief executive of the college in August.