David Cameron, the Tory leader, backed a reduction, indicating that he favoured it being lowered to 20 weeks, while Gordon Brown and a majority of MPs voted to keep the current limit.A lowering of the limit had been predicted, but MPs instead rejected all the amendments that would have lowered the limit.An attempt to prevent two-mother families being legally enshrined also failed.
David Cameron, the Tory leader, backed a reduction, indicating that he favoured it being lowered to 20 weeks, while Gordon Brown and a majority of MPs voted to keep the current limit.
A lowering of the limit had been predicted, but MPs instead rejected all the amendments that would have lowered the limit.
An attempt to prevent two-mother families being legally enshrined also failed.
But the breakdown of NuCon MPs is less encouraging, and there's a good chance that under a Cameron non-government this would have passed easily.
"If you think the argument about abortion has ended after last night's vote, you're mistaken. It will run on and on"
Guardian - Mary Kenny - This debate won't end
I think it was Clive James who wrote "you do not have to see the body of a dead woman following a botched illegal abortion to know that abortion should be legal, you only have to see the face of a woman on her way to a successful one.(apologies to Clive for inaccurate memory). The trouble is that most discussion about time limits is really about the next salami slice on the way to an outright ban. We know this, and Ms Kenny knows this, and attempts to pretend otherwise are ridiculous. So the discussion about limits is moot because it is simply a dishonest proxy for ending the right to choose and will be resisted as such. If the anti-abortion camp were not so resistant to proper european-style sex and relationship education (there's a reason their abortion rate is so much lower than ours) and much easier access to contraception they might get a more sympathetic reception. But their vehement resistance to such ideas betrays their real intent, and thus they must lose. Again and again.
The trouble is that most discussion about time limits is really about the next salami slice on the way to an outright ban. We know this, and Ms Kenny knows this, and attempts to pretend otherwise are ridiculous. So the discussion about limits is moot because it is simply a dishonest proxy for ending the right to choose and will be resisted as such.
If the anti-abortion camp were not so resistant to proper european-style sex and relationship education (there's a reason their abortion rate is so much lower than ours) and much easier access to contraception they might get a more sympathetic reception. But their vehement resistance to such ideas betrays their real intent, and thus they must lose. Again and again.
But their vehement resistance to such ideas betrays their real intent, and thus they must lose. Again and again.
these guys win the 'banging your fool head against reality till it bleedsTM' awards..
let's note this culturally arrogant, prudish moralism as the psychosexual vector of 'anglo disease'- ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
