pro-choice

Let us all encourage our MPs to sign up to pro-choice MP Laura Moffatt's early-day motion which attacks the many patronising, Lord-based myths about the effects of abortion on women.

Must do an interview with Laura soon. She's our kind of female.

Had an abortion?

Like the idea of being able to get one if you need one?

Fight the pro-life religious loonies and add your name to the pro-choice majority.

Am continuing the pro-abortion rights debate over at the New Statesman at the moment - ie, having another go at that naughty Nadine Dorries' plans to try and cut the time limit for abortion.

Nadine, you are bad.

Photos from the pro-choice rally in London, Saturday 3 March 2007.

Keep your rosaries off our ovaries... liked that slogan a lot. Just say no to sex with pro-lifers was another goodie.

You'll find photos from last night's pro-choice rally in London here. The interviews we did will follow shortly.

Amusing point for now - a number of people we talked to at the rally said they'd emailed Tory MP Nadine Dorries to ask questions about the Termination of Pregnancy Bill she plans to table in Parliament on 23 March 2007, and that she hadn't responded to them, either. (She has been ignoring us, as readers of this site will know).

Which is very bad manners. An MP must to respond to members of the public, even if that response is Get Bent.

Time to make a Freedom of Information request asking for all emails Nadine has received and ignored on this most important topic. After all, she started it by trying to table these opportunistic bills in the first place. The least she can do is explain why.

Hey - maybe she can't.

And so nearly THREE WEEKS have passed since we wrote to Tory MP Nadine Dorries at her parliament.uk email address and asked her to explain why she plans to table another Termination of Pregnancy Bill.

We wrote Nadine a very civilised letter on this topic, if we say so ourselves.

Have we had a civilised response?

Have we had any response at all?

We have not.

We have been ignored.

Well - we were directed by somebody other than Nadine to a little comments page on Nadine's site. She rants on about this site on that page for a bit. She also took the opportunity presented by the recent saving of a baby at 22 weeks' gestation to rattle on about God and Stevie Wonder (Nadine is - meaning no disrepect - no great ambassador for subtlety) and the joys of a pro-life perspective. No mention, alas, of providing decent wages or benefits for the women she wants to force to give birth.

Ah well.

It is beginning to occur to us that Nadine isn't one of your big strategic thinkers. We're starting to suspect that the reason she hasn't responded to our concerns is that she can't.