Thersites Writes

Some of you may have heard that racist, stupid Tory MP Ann Winterton is trying to limit abortion through the back door:

Ann Winterton's bill would require women to be counselled about possible ill-effects, then to wait a week to consider them before going ahead...

...She wants compulsory counselling - rather than the voluntary counselling offered currently - and a seven-day "cooling off" period, to allow time for second thoughts.

And her Termination of Pregnancy (Counselling and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill will also include a provision that doctors record whether abortions are being performed on physical or mental grounds.

Yes, because what vulnerable, desperate women need is to be forced into a long wait to ponder what happens next in painful detail, being harrassed by some counseller and then given the scarlet letter on their medical records. Why hasn't anyone thought of this before? Apparently, this is all for the good of their mental health, which is beyond parody IMHO.

This dreadful misanthrope does not care for women nor for the children who will end up growing up either poor or unwanted. (Or exploited Chinese labourers, for that matter.) It's callous, vindictive and intrusive and all about putting ideology before reality. Hopefully it will be defeated immediately, but this is perhaps the first of many skirmishes over the issue.

As for Winterton, there's nothing particularly pro-life about her, is there? You have to wonder why the Whips didn't shut her up, as this is hardly going to win Dave Cameron that all-important female vote.