Abortion rights
Over 200 people packed into a committee room in the House of Lords to hear a huge number and variety of speakers all defending a woman’s right to choose last Wednesday. It was hot, humid and very very packed, with women (and some men) perched on every available surface to be part of resurrecting the UK’s pro-choice campaign, Abortion Rights.
The speakers that moved me most were Melody Drnach, the Vice President Action (what wonderful job title!) from the National Organisation of Women in the US, and the words of an older sister who spoke from the floor about her mother who was forced to have an illegal abortion before 1967.
There were about twenty MPs there too - Linda Waltho, Emily Thornberry, Katy Clark, Laura Moffat, Chris McCafferty, Diana Johnson and many more, not to mention Baroness Gould. And the funny thing was, they were all, without exception, Labour.
On a related note, a study published in the British Medical Journal today has found that having an abortion does not increase a woman’s risk of depression:
Researchers can find “no credible evidence” to support the idea that termination poses a threat to a woman’s mental health. [...]
“This suggests that if the goal is to reduce women’s risk for depression, research should focus on how to prevent and ameliorate the effect of unwanted childbearing, particularly for younger women,” the researchers say in the online version of the British Medical Journal.
So you pity these people forced to have “illegal abortions” Do you ever pity the child that was slaughtered? Sliced and Diced and flushed down a toilet with shit and old tampons?
I do pity women who are in the terrible situation of having to either continue a pregnancy they don’t want or having to undergo an unsafe illegal procedure. Don’t you?
not in the least bit. if the murderer gets killed in the process of commiting murder then so be it. but you failed to answer my question - do you pity the babies that have been slaughtered over the few decadeds? 40,000,000 in the US alone. Thats alot - 1/4 of our generation for example.
I don’t believe abortion is murder, so clearly not.
So at what point does a child become a child? Must they have a name, or must they have a heart beat? Or should they be able to walk and eat on their own?
How can you decide when a baby is a baby, the heart beats at 3 weeks! Legalised abortion has created a society that does not care for children.
[...] In a post from October 2005, Antonia Bance gives an interesting account of a debate held in the House of Lords about a woman’s right to choose, and also tells of some cheering news from the British Medical Journal. “The speakers that moved me most were Melody Drnach, the Vice President Action (what wonderful job title!) from the National Organisation for Women in the US, and the words of an older sister who spoke from the floor about her mother who was forced to have an illegal abortion before 1967.” [...]