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Tory minister for women Maria Miller has backed a reduction of the abortion limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks saying it is imperative that more women are allowed to have unwanted babies.
Ms. Miller pledged to ensure the law reflected the way advances in medical technology now mean more women are happily able to have babies which they don’t want and can’t afford to keep.
The Conservative minister for women also said she was ‘driven by a very practical impact that late term abortion has on women’ in preventing them from exercising their right as a woman to be able to give birth to as many unwanted babies as they don’t want.
Her remarks were welcomed by fellow Tory Nadine Dorries, who tweeted on Tuesday night:
Maria Miller understands the importance of recognising some women are traumatised by not being able to have lots and lots of unwanted babies. It’s real feminism to allow women to have the choice to be saddled with babies which they can’t afford, don’t want and won’t be able to feed.
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This is truly in the spirit of Jonathan Swift’s ‘Modest Proposal’ .. fantastic expose 🙂
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal
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I have a son, who was born prematurly, at 24 weeks +5 days in Jan 2006.
He is now a happy and healthy 6 year old and his mum, his family and I love him very much. I am very lucky to have become a father age 38, for the first time.
I am deeply in debt, financially, morally, and spiritually, to the skill and dedication of Chelsea and Westminster and East Surrey Hospitals, for giving my son every chance at beating the odds and surviving.
I formed a bond with my son, during those long days and nights, four months in total at the special care baby unit before he could come home.
My partner and I got in to terrible debt because of this stressful occaision, happy yet fraught. Unable to work, with mounting debts, we were luckiy to have some savings and the support of our family.
Six years on the world is different.
I have no job, we have four children and we are living hand to mouth.
I have been to over 60 job interviews in two years and still I have no permanent job or income.
With four children and a part time job, childcare and mortgage between us.
Life is tough. Tougher than it has ever been before.
If my son had been born with a physical or learning disability, as some children were on that same ward around that time, If I had no job at the time, if my partners employer (Virgin Atlantic) had not supported her, had this happened today, in this political and financial environment, I can honestly say, the outcome could well have been different.
Yes, there are reasons for giving a child a chance.
But Politicians are not there to judge us.
They are elected, in the hope, to enable people to thrive, to contribute, to realise their dreams and potential.
But also to manage a country, with our tax money, the fruits of our labour, to help us in our hour of need.
A deeply personal matter, between A woman and her partner and her Doctor, her family, her support network is the only thing that really matters.
If politicians are unable or unwilling to help, they should butt out and leave women to deal with their own reality, their own circumstances and make their own choices based upon the facts and circumstances they face.
If child birth was up to the business community, and right wing politicians, only the wealthy would be able to have children.
As it is, children and young adults are treated as no more than an inconvinience to todays political classes as are the old, sick and disabled, the unemployed and those living in communities stripped of their dignity and their industries.
Pro life agenda?
Let’s see how social services cope with the people already born into this dreadful political system, this cynical state that this country is becoming and then see, how many children are to be condemded to a life of judgement as deserving or un-deserving poor? .
A political system that totally undermines the fabric of today, has no regard for the future or us.
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Brilliant comment Drew. I also have a son who was born very prematurely (he’s 5 now) and exactly like you I formed a strong bond with him during the months he was in the ICU.
Your last sentence sums up everything that’s wrong with the present political system. Everything politicians do is designed for quick ‘fixes’, quick profits, quick gains – nothing seems to be designed for the long-term future of the country, our children and our grandchildren.
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Jonathan Swift was truly the master of English political satire.
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There is more to being a soft touch leftie than meets they eye eh Mr Pride?
It’s good to be on the same page as someone else in our shared human conscience.
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A “Modest proposal” indeed, thank you for bringing to my attention. As I navigate around the web, I am picking up many references to classical litrature which, rather sadly is as topical now as it was in every “civilisation” since Greece or Rome. How true, that the one thing we learn from history, is that we learn nothing from history….
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Brave and honest responses from Drew and yourself Tom; purely from a female perspective I object at Politicians having ANY say in the timing of an abortion. This is a decision to be taken by the individual concerned and her medical team, and theirs alone.
Abortion is a traumatic enough experience without anyone laying down regulations that result in such decisions being forced to be made in haste in order to fit into an unrealistic time frame.
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Absolutely. And I hope something turns up for you work-wise soon.
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Quite agree Jayne.
There are so many things that annoy me about this whole issue and one is the way the Tories claim they’re the party of ‘smaller government’ and ‘less state interference’ while advocating that the state, politicians, police and courts are deeply involved in private discussions between a doctor and a patient.
Now that’s what I would call real state interference.
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sheer joy to read and cuts through the fluff to give the utter joy of the twonk that is miller
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