Tuesday 3 June 2014

Midwives To Perform Abortions

That's Conservative Governments for you. Margaret Thatcher legalised abortion up to birth.

Although this proposal has been doing the rounds, so to speak, for decades, the last Labour Government never did it.

Just as it never introduced same-sex marriage, which Gordon Brown, uniquely among Party Leaders, specifically ruled out in the run-up to the last General Election. (He also used to publish entire newspaper articles very cogently setting out the case against assisted suicide.)

But then, John Major made divorce legally easier than release from a car hire contract. That's Conservative Governments for you.

No wonder that hardly any practising Catholics would ever vote for either of the Coalition parties.

Proportionately probably even fewer of the attendees at the fast-growing black-majority churches, thanks to whom London has a much higher rate of churchgoing than the rest of the country, would ever do so.

Nor would most of the Anglican clergy give them the time of day anymore. The Anglican laity will take a bit more work. The pity is that, on things like this, the Conservatives can blame the Lib Dems.

Anna Soubry may be a former SDP member, but she has never been a Lib Dem. She it was who peremptorily ended all consultation on the abortion laws, on the grounds that the Government simply did not care what the public thought.

That did not happen under Labour, either.

8 comments:

  1. Abortion is equally as sinful whether it's performed by a medical doctor or a nurse. That you make a distinction here tells a lot about where you're coming from on this issue.

    I suspect the government is preempting the problem now afflicting the USA - too many doctors there these days are too "small-c" conservative to meet the rising demands of the child-murder industry. Nurses, however, are not.

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  2. Almost all abortions-and all divorces- take place under the terms of the Labour Party's legislation.

    Same sex marriage only became law thanks to Ed Miliband.

    As he rightly boasted on Twitter afterwards,

    Let's see Labour reverse abortion by midwife or abortion till birth...

    They won't. Ever. So what is your point?

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  3. John Major didn't change the divorce laws.

    His planned change was never introduced.

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  4. Why would Catholics vote Labour? Are they masochists?

    Labour closed every Catholic adoption agency in England and Wales.

    Labour legalised adoption by two dads and two mums-and got rid of a child's right to a father.

    Labour made it impossible to hold orthodox Catholic views and work anywhere in the public sector.

    As we saw with Lilian Ladelle, Eustice Johns and Dr Sheila Matthews.

    Labour created easy divorce and easy abortion.

    Any Catholic who votes for them ( my parents once did but long since ceased) is a lapsed Catholic.

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  5. Well, that is not very far off every Catholic in Britain, then.

    In general, go back to America, you don't know what you are talking about in a British context, and you people have done nothing but harm to the pro-life cause in your own country.

    But one thing cannot stand: John Major's changes to the divorce laws certainly did come into effect.

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  6. There would have been no gay marriage bill if Labour had won and Brown had remained Prime Minister. The situation would not have arisen. He said so explicitly before the Election.

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  7. Exactly.

    Poor soul, he has obviously never seen the pro-life movement in Britain.

    It abominates no one more than "the Tories", and above all Margaret Thatcher.

    The Chairman and the Secretary of the All-Party Parliamentary Pro-Life Group are both Labour MPs (the former is also a signatory to the One Nation Society), and its Clerk is a Labour Councillor.

    Well, of course. What else were they going to be?

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  8. If asked, most Catholic priests would regard voting for either Coalition party next year as a mortal sin. Just as well next to no Catholics are going to do it.

    Good point about the black churches. Coming force in London and other Labour parties. One to watch.

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