Mehdi Hasan writes a piece about abortion for the New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/lifestyle/lifestyle/2012/10/being-pro-life-doesnt-make-me-any-less-lefty
Someone called Hopi Sen writes an ill-tempered (he admits to being angry) riposte: http://hopisen.com/?p=4983 and is immediately feted by the Left who all insist on the right of individual women to have abortions.
On their insistence that abortion is an individual choice the pro-abortion lobby are really saying there is no such thing as society. Society must not have a view on what women do with their bodies. Even (in one extreme position) that men should not express a view on abortion since they will never have need of the operation.
As abortion is funded by general taxation all taxpayers are entitled to have a view (and a vote) on the subject. No taxation without representation (as the Americans say). If Diane Abbott MP, and Suzanne Moore and all the rest of the pro-abortion claque want to shut down debate on the issue they are really denying the principle of democracy, transparency and accountability in public finances.
Someone called Hopi Sen writes an ill-tempered (he admits to being angry) riposte: http://hopisen.com/?p=4983 and is immediately feted by the Left who all insist on the right of individual women to have abortions.
On their insistence that abortion is an individual choice the pro-abortion lobby are really saying there is no such thing as society. Society must not have a view on what women do with their bodies. Even (in one extreme position) that men should not express a view on abortion since they will never have need of the operation.
As abortion is funded by general taxation all taxpayers are entitled to have a view (and a vote) on the subject. No taxation without representation (as the Americans say). If Diane Abbott MP, and Suzanne Moore and all the rest of the pro-abortion claque want to shut down debate on the issue they are really denying the principle of democracy, transparency and accountability in public finances.
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