Damage done to women by late abortion

Given the almost deafening silence on abortion now that it is off the parliamentary agenda, it is worth revisiting Edward Leigh's entry on the Cornerstone blog on the Abortion debate last year, especially for the comments from a midwife on the damage and the lack of information given to women.

The discrepancy between the views of the British people on the prevalence of abortion, especially late abortion, is entirely at odds with the scale of the victory in the parliamentary vote for the anti-life lobby, which dominates Labour and Libdems. As mentioned in that scourge of our unrepresentative elites, the Daily Mail, two out of three people and three out of four women believe the 24-limit must come down. Note that women are more likely to be against the current high limit than men. Unfortunately, progressives and feminists have a different role for women in mind; abortion is part of the battle for gender equality - so unsex women here and stop the milk of human kindness. To these MPs, women damaged by abortion - and their dead children - are cannon fodder for the revolution.

The cowardice, or more likely the ambivalence of the Conservative front-bench, suggesting only a reduction to 22 weeks, bodes ill for the chance of another parliamentray vote after the election. Many have said that Cameron will avoid the issue, should the tories win; but he must not be allowed to do so.