Peter Ould on May 25th, 2008

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Peter Ould on May 22nd, 2008

Information is beginning to emerge about how the abortion vote on Tuesday evening was subtlely whipped by Labour.
As Conservative Home point out this morning in this great chart, the abortion vote did split roughly on party lines.

Now some of that is to do with how socially liberal Labour MPs tend to be (and socially conservative [...]

Continue reading about The Hypocrisy of Labour

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

Peter Ould on April 13th, 2008

Nadine says what I said yesterday

New figures will be officially released next week which will claim that there is no need to reduce the upper limit at which abortion takes place from 24 to 20 weeks.
I believe the research is paid for by the Department of Health. The Minister in charge of this area of [...]

Continue reading about Nadine Dorries - Survival Figures are “Dodgy”