Off you trot, Jesus

Big fortnight ahead for us girls of the pro-abortion, anti-Jesus Christ/God/Allah/Mohamed persuasion.

Abortion Rights is holding a lobby at parliament this week on Wednesday. You can read more about this (when, where, why, etc) here.

Then on Friday 25 January, Feminist Fightback will picket the Christian Medical Fellowship at 4pm, (6 Marshalea Road, SE1 1HL, London). The CMF is lobbying the government very hard over the bill, and needs a bit of hard lobbying itself as a result.

As has been discussed on this site, a great many of us are very concerned that the anti-abortion/happy clappers lobby is using the government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill as an opportunity to table amendments that threaten the Abortion Act.

They are especially keen to reduce the legal time limit for abortion from 24 to 20 - or even 18 - weeks of pregnancy.

Thing is - does anyone really want these changes, apart from conservative political opportunists?

The vast majority of MPs voted against reducing the time limit on the last two occasions that they were asked, and recent Abortion Rights research showed that nearly 80% of people in Britain support a woman's right to choose. Only three percent of those polled said that they thought abortion was unacceptable.

So... suppose the question is who exactly are the Holy Joes trying to appeal to? Why can't they see that they're playing to a cold and empty hall...?

Anyway - it's all on. Two big protests in as many weeks. We will be in very close attendance.