Jess Phillips MP: Fighting for Abortion, But Where Was the Fight for Rape-Gang Victims?


“Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.” — Proverbs 31:8–9

In light of the horrific reality of abuse—whether hidden inside toxic families or concealed and minimised by failing institutions—are the UK’s MPs really prepared to fight for the sanctity of life and protect those who are most vulnerable?

As Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, Jess Phillips accepted a profound stewardship in July 2024: the duty to help safeguard tens of millions of women and girls across the United Kingdom.

Yet when Rupert Lowe’s Rape Gang Inquiry report was published in June 2026, Ms Phillips was no longer leading from the front. She was on the back benches, having resigned from her ministerial post only weeks earlier—at precisely the time when moral courage, responsibility and visible leadership were so desperately needed.

Her stated reason for resigning was a lack of confidence in the political leadership. But what of her own leadership duty? What of the girls who were raped, abused, trafficked, impregnated and abandoned while authorities repeatedly failed to defend them, hear them or correct the falsified public record surrounding their suffering?

This is the devastating contradiction.

Ms Phillips has publicly declared that she will fight for abortion rights for the rest of her life. In Christian and moral terms, that means fighting for the continued legal destruction of unborn human life in the womb. Yet where was that same unrelenting determination for the girls whose lives, bodies and futures were violated by rape gangs—and then failed again by the very institutions charged with protecting them?

Watch the interview below. Notice not only what Ms Phillips says about fighting for abortion rights, but how she responds when directly questioned and pressed to account for that position.

Proverbs 31 does not call leaders merely to possess the correct title, repeat compassionate slogans or signal concern when it advances a political career. It commands them to open their mouths, judge righteously and defend those who cannot defend themselves. John MacArthur’s teaching on Proverbs 31 likewise stresses that compassion is not abstract or performative: it reaches out personally and becomes actively involved with the poor, unfortunate and vulnerable.

Notice, too, Ms Phillips’ reaction when the first two steps of correcting the falsified record are applied. The necessary questions are asked. Clear answers are sought. Yet what the public receives is evasion, hostility and an aggressive resistance to accountability rather than the transparent, responsible engagement demanded by her office.

This is what happens when someone is not constituted in what is divine, godly, righteous, true, loving and responsible. Political language about “freedom” becomes a cover for abandoning the unborn while failing to adequately answer for the protection of girls already brutalised by systemic abuse.

That is not compassion. It is not safeguarding. It is not righteous leadership.

It is a profound moral evil.

We will continue to hold Jess Phillips and other MPs—including Stella Creasy and Catherine Eccles—accountable to the duties they willingly accepted, as well as to the basic human and moral duty to defend the vulnerable. Public office must never become a means of using victims when politically convenient, while abandoning them when courageous leadership carries a personal or professional cost.

The vulnerable are not political instruments. Their lives are not expendable. Their suffering must not be hidden, managed or sacrificed for anyone’s career.

The fully evidenced reality must be faced, the falsified record must be corrected, and those entrusted with power must be held publicly accountable for how they have used—or failed to use—it.


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Tony
Tony
1 month ago

This really struck me because it highlights what feels like a painful contradiction between the responsibilities of public office and the actions of those entrusted with it. It left me thinking that true compassion has to be measured by consistent action, especially towards the most vulnerable, not simply by words or political commitments. Whether people agree or disagree with every conclusion, it certainly challenges us to think more deeply about accountability and moral responsibility.

James Mills
1 month ago

I get chills from watching that video of Jess Phillips. There’s a noticeable point where she realised that her illogical double standards had been exposed.

She’s saying that a pregnant woman has a fledgling life in her womb when there’s a miscarriage, but then, in her magical thinking, a baby becomes a non-living clump of cells when there’s an abortion.

Rather than have the humility to realise what she was saying was illogical, she doubled down and became petulant, borderline psychotic.

Meanwhile we see her hypocrisy in criticising a lack of leadership in her government whilst she abandons her post when it’s needed most with the release of the report on the Rape Gangs in the UK.

Kris
Kris
1 month ago

If they’re babies in miscarriage are they not babies in abortion as well!? Boom. The look on Ms Phillips’s face to that question says it all. When postmodern “my truth” nonsense meets principle it stands no chance. If Ms Phillips had any integrity and true confidence in her position, why was she so eager to evade such questions. People who deny absolute truths will always evade questions that confront them on it because, in their mind and heart, their opinion supersedes the absolute truth and its principles. It’s a transgression that stems all the way back to Eden.

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Diane Cubitt
Diane Cubitt
1 month ago

This article saddens me because of how those young girls have been brutally abused and raped, but where is the help they need? Ms Phillips needs to be held accountable for her actions and attitude towards what happened. Saying she will stand up for adoration till the end…

Thank you for looking into this and reporting it to us all. This is what we, as the public need to know…

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Jatinder
Jatinder
1 month ago

This is horrific. Jess Phillips is just so callous in her attitude. This is suppose to be someone protecting young women. Yet having watched this video I can understand why. There is such little humanity with how she is even discussing the issue of abortion.

Melissa
Melissa
1 month ago

This is devastating and makes me so mad. The left are absolute frauds with their so called radical empathy. They want to be able to enjoy their sin and damn the consequences. When it comes to the rape gangs, virtue signalling to not be called racist is more important than the quarter of a million plus young girls that have been abused. It’s beyond hypocrisy, it is beyond double standards, it is flat out evil.

Daniel Schmitz
Daniel Schmitz
1 month ago

Phew, that video is hard to watch! How can someone whose job is to serve as the Under Secretary of State for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls speak so casually about the lives of unborn children? At the same time, Jess Phillips has failed to properly follow up on the rape gang scandals that have affected so many girls and women. Where is her empathy and humanity?

Her ambition to hold a leadership position and protect women and girls does not match the reality of her actions. Thank you for this article and for helping to expose these realities.

Sukh Singh
1 month ago

Wow… The spirit that comes from Jess Phillips is extremely disturbing. I have never seen such a spirit in a UK MP before, wow. Gleefully enabling the murder of babies in the womb, phew. Yet she will simultaneously claim to champion the vulnerable with supporting mothers of miscarriages. This is what radicalised, woke, unfounded individuals believe; that they can live in whatever reality they choose, no matter the consequences or contradictions. Yet that is palpably and evidentially untrue. Reality is reality and we all bow to it – ultimately known in Yahweh, God.

Jess
Jess
1 month ago

The interview with Jess Phillips highlights serious contradictions in her stated commitment to protecting women and children. Her position requires leadership, and as this article points out, protecting children is not something that should be treated as a privilege to be exercised only when it benefits a political career. That is not acceptable, and she—as well as all of us—has a moral duty to stand up for the protection of women and children. I pray that she is willing to pursue the truth with humility, repentance, and integrity.

Stasia Simpson
Stasia Simpson
1 month ago

Jess Phillips’ cold and dismissive attitude and demeanour is as chilling as they come.
It comes as no surprise, absolutely none, with this type of pathology, that a rape gang survivor said this about why Jess Philips was asked to quit during the rape gang enquiry:

“Being publicly contradicted and dismissed by a government minister when you are a survivor telling the truth takes you right back to that feeling of not being believed all over again.”

This is someone who clearly ought to have nothing to do with the welfare and wellbeing of another living being, especially children.
God help our young children, exploited girls and babies in the womb at the risk of an apathetic and satanic belief system 🙏

Tom Hasker
Tom Hasker
1 month ago

Excellent point by the interviewer in the video clip; it may be the woman’s body, but the child is not a part of that woman, so what right does she have to terminate it?
It is the avoidance of these clear questions that show the true intentions of Jess Phillips.

If that is her stance on the value of life, then it is clear why she would not avenge the rape, abuse and murder of thousands young girls.

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