Thanks to Nadine Dorries’ amendment to the Health and Social Care bill, abortion rights
have been discussed a great deal this week – both inside and outside of Parliament. In her cover article for this week’s Spectator (out today), Mary Wakefield says that this debate has revealed a “strange and unpleasant consensus… that
abortion is not just a necessary evil, but a jolly good thing.”
In the piece, Mary asks “Why are we so keen on abortion?”:
“The fact is that unless you’re a fan of infanticide you’ve got to agree that somewhere along the slippery ascent from that little Alka-Seltzer of pluripotent cells to the birth of an actual baby, your child becomes human. I’d take a guess that most men and women feel it’s a sliding scale, that each month adds another dollop of personhood, each month brings us closer to a duty to care for him or her.
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