Jesus Christ

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?

Very keen for this to be the year when those who fancy themselves as the natural heirs to the moral majority realise that they're actually the moral minority. Falwell is dead, you nitwits...

But let's not be childish for an entire post for once... on Wednesday 16 January 2008, we of the pro-choice majority will be attending a public meeting at the Houses of Parliament where the campaign to continue defend the Abortion Act and a woman's right to decide will continue at pace.

Pro-abortionists like ourselves are extremely concerned that anti-abortionists (or, perhaps we should say, politicians looking to cash in on voters' purported fervour for legislation with a nice righteous/misogynist twist) are using the government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill to restrict the Abortion Act.

Baroness Masham has tabled an amendment to restrict abortion. Other MPs may try to lower the legal abortion time limit, as Nadine Dorries has tried on several occasions (and failed and failed again, btw, but, you know - never say die).

And here is the charming Baroness Paisley spritzing the masses with exactly the sort of berserk blast that puts the topic so completely beyond any place where rational intercourse might live:

"...Northern Ireland will not be bullied by political activists whose ideas and actions have brought about the massacre of more than seven million innocent unborn children in the years that this (Abortion) Act has been in operation on the mainland...

Don't make a habit of linking to mainstream stories, but make a total habit of it when it comes to showing up crazed American Christians.

Chocolate Jesus nailed.

Jesus H Christ. Bring back the lions.

Time to go back to bed.