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This is nice and simple. I challenge absolutely anybody who is in favour of maintaining the limit on abortions to do the following:
Read this piece from yesterday’s Telegraph
Explain coherently why it would have been moral to inject Ellie-Suzanne’s heart with poison to kill her and then to dismember her before removing the body parts a [...]
Continue reading about An Open Challenge to those in Favour of Retaining 24 Weeks
Nadine Dorries MP will on Tuesday launch the official parliamentary campaign to reduce the upper limit for abortion from 24 weeks to 20 weeks when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill is debated in the Commons later this month.
Nadine will be supported by consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Dr Vincent Argent, former medical Director of BPAS, [...]
You may have seen the news stories this morning claiming that there has been no real change in pre 24 week foetus viability in the last few years. This has been spun as a reason not to change the limit on abortions when an amendment is presented very soon as part of the passage of [...]
Continue reading about Why the “Stay at 24 Weeks” Argument is Tenuous
This little gem from Nadine
Spent today with a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist.
He is an abortionist who will not abort over sixteen weeks because “it doesn’t matter what the reasons are, it’s life as we know it at that stage and changes from a procedure into something else slightly more sinister”.
There is not one [...]
Nadine Dorries is going to name and shame MPs who have voted against pro-life positions. Today’s example is Laura Moffat, who couldn’t even bring herself last year to vote for counselling before women have abortions.
Laura Moffatt. Labour MP, Crawley. Majority 37.
Laura Moffat voted AGAINST counselling before the termination of pregnancy in 2007; and abstained during [...]
