Being more sensible than Evan Harris
Talking of pro-choice Guardian columnists, today’s Zoe Williams piece is a corker:
People who use time limits to push an anti-abortion agenda are fixing on the most vulnerable, traumatised people they could possibly find, and trying to legislate against them. I cannot conceive of a more cowardly position.
PS: she also has a go at our friend Evan too - well, you wouldn’t expect me not to post it, would you?!
In July last year, Evan Harris, health spokesman for the Lib Dems, called for a committee on foetal viability. He’s more sensible than Laurence Robertson, Tory MP for Tewkesbury, who in May 2005 called for a ban on abortion altogether. Harris was also more sensible than Liam Fox, who very briefly flirted in the Tory leadership election with the idea of reducing time limits to 12 weeks. The Liberal Democrat was more sensible than Michael Howard, for that matter, who, prior to the general election, let it be known (via Cosmopolitan magazine), that he’d like to see the limit reduced to 20 weeks. This was underpinned by no new information on foetal viability at all. He just scratched around for a number that conveyed distaste for the business of abortion, without being so bold as to lose any pro-choice votes over it.
Still, for all the people Evan Harris was more sensible than, this is still not a sensible proposition.
as it happens I sent Dr Harris a leaflet about feotal viability,so I think you will find that his proposals were based on up to date information
this was after he had noticed that the abortion laws had not been updated.
I am not convinced that creating conflict over it is agood idea .
Bu then the whole political system is based on conflict
as is the legal system
I woudl imagine that rich owman coudl get an abortion straight away if she wanted.whilst a poor woman would be the one up against the time limits and also the one to suffer if she kept the baby.
I don’t think Dr Harris is against abortion either.
But to have a bunch of men debating abortion does not seem to me to be a great idea.
because it creates a them and us approach.
Sorry Micahel ,but the idea of Michael Howard giving an interview on this to Cosmo just to promore his party is horrible and insensitive.
Zoe means life .
Susan, posting as many comments as you have today, particularly when they are all so similar, might be considered by some people to be spam-like. It’s certianly troll-like behaviour. Why don’t you go away and learn some etiquette before you post here again?