Tag Archives: abortion
Respect
I saw this tweet at some point during the weekend, and Beatidude and I had a polite exchange of tweets over it. @rphillips2001 How do you propose that we convince abortion rights supporters to respect life? — Roamin’ Catholic (@Beatidude) … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights, War, Women
SPUC Off! Keep Abortion Free, Safe, and Legal
About quarter to 12, my oldest friend, who’d been staring at the SPUC Edinburgh protesters across the road, turned to me. “You know, I remember us demo’ing for this in the 1980s. And in the 1990s. Now it’s 2012. And … Continue reading
Filed under Scottish Politics, Women, Justice, Photographs, of Edinburgh
SPUC off!
On 28th April 1968, the 1967 Abortion Act became law in England, Scotland, and Wales. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists reminds its members: For the twelve years before the Act, abortion was the leading cause of maternal mortality … Continue reading
Filed under Human Rights, Scottish Culture, Women
Extremists, terrorism, and racism
One of the nastiest and most thought-provoking ads the pro-life movement in the US ever ran was of a very pretty little girl, aged about six, in a red dress, nappy hair with a pink ribbon. She stares out of … Continue reading
Filed under American, Human Rights, Poverty, Racism, Women
Why is the Telegraph helping Labour get elected?
Lyall Duff thought he’d made his Facebook profile private. The lesson everyone should take from the Telegraph’s “investigative journalism” – finding a few ranty sweary posts and quoting or partially quoting them – is that Facebook is never reliably private. … Continue reading
Filed under Elections, Healthcare, Women
Lyall Duff, Facebook, and the Telegraph
Talking on Facebook is like having a conversation in a busy cafe. You have a reasonable expectation of privacy, if you’re an ordinary person talking quietly to a friend, but of course you can be overheard – and if you’re … Continue reading
Filed under Elections, Healthcare, Human Rights, Women
Teach children lying liars lie
On 23rd March, the Guardian broke the news that SPUC (the “Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child” to give them their full, misleading name) had a presentation for schoolchildren that wasn’t so much anti-abortion as anti-science. The headmaster … Continue reading
Filed under Education, Healthcare, Women
Abortion
There are a set of moral, ethical, and medical issues around abortion. [Also about use of Care Quality Commission staff for a politician's personal prejudices. More of that in the update below.] The Telegraph does not appear to be interested … Continue reading
Filed under Healthcare, Women
How it works: contraception
In the UK, all pharmacies are required to abide by the guidance of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) that a pharmacist has a right to refuse to sell the contraceptive pill (or emergency contraception) on the grounds of religious or … Continue reading
Filed under Uncategorized
Every woman who needs an abortion should get it on the NHS
I’m pro-choice. Whatever your view on the ethics of abortion or your judgement of any particular woman’s reasons for having an abortion, it seems an unqualified wrong for anyone other than the pregnant woman herself to have the first choice … Continue reading
Filed under Healthcare, Poverty, Women
