After already admitting that 70% of what she writes is fiction, it looks as though Nadine Dorries has even managed to confuse herself now about where she stands on abortion. For instance, here’s an exchange we had on Twitter the other night: Randeep Ramesh just described me as anti choice in the Guardian. In the style of Boris, you are a liar Randeep and a disgrace to journalism— Nadine Dorries MP (@NadineDorriesMP) April 04, 2012 Very anti post 20 weeks, very anti gender selection abortion, very anti illegal abortion, but I am not anti choice. #guardianemploysliars— Nadine Dorries MP (@NadineDorriesMP) April 04, 2012 @NadineDorriesMP So are you saying you support abortion up to 20 weeks?— (@CathElliott) April 04, 2012 @CathElliott I will never,…
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That was my favourite placard slogan from Friday evening’s protest in Bedford Square against the bigots and harassers of 40 Days for Life.
Here are some pictures I took to mark the occasion. See if you can spot the glaring difference between them and us.
Praying at the shrine of the box of plastic foetuses
Categories: a bit of politics, abortion, angry? what me?, campaigning, feminism, misogyny, photography, Pro-life nutjobs, religion, sexism, the stupid it burns
It’s International Human Rights Day today, which means it’s officially the final day of the 16 days of activism against gender violence campaign. But 16 days isn’t enough is it? Not when you consider that violence against women and girls continues to be perpetrated day after day after day, 365 days of the year. Sixteen days of awareness raising and speaking out isn’t enough, not when you consider that at any point, day or night, somewhere in this world, a woman or girl is being subjected to rape, or domestic violence, or FGM, forced marriage, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, or a so-called ‘honour-crime’. Sixteen days of blogging, tweeting, marching, chanting, shouting about this isn’t enough when at any moment you care to pick a…
In her Guardian article last week – Feminists shouldn’t try to stifle debate about abortion – Deborah Orr wrote: “I’m struggling to understand quite why it is so terrible that the anti-abortion charity, Life, has been invited to join a government- advisory sexual health forum… …Life will never win the argument, because it is anti-choice. Logic is on the pro-choice side, let alone practicality.” To which I responded in the comments: “I think you’re being incredibly naive here Deborah. What you’re basically saying is that pro-choicers have nothing to fear because we’re obviously right. And yet look at the situation in America, where Christian anti-choice groups like Life have been able to exert influence on policy makers. Abortion is effectively banned now in many…
Just in case you missed it, here’s a link to the text of Nadine Dorries’ speech in the House of Commons yesterday when she presented her ten-minute rule bill to Parliament – Sex Education (Required Content). And here’s a list of the 67 MPs who voted in favour of the nonsensical proposal to “require schools to provide certain additional sex education to girls aged between 13 and 16; to provide that such education must include information and advice on the benefits of abstinence from sexual activity.” Is yours one of the 67? If they are, you’ve got until January next year to help change their mind, because that’s when the bill is set to get its second reading.
