Et tu Britain? Et tu?

[marmar]

Ministers back anti-abortion lobby reforms
Charities warn of 'distress and delay' as they are stripped of principal responsibility to counsel women seeking a termination

Polly Curtis
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 28 August 2011


The government has caved in to calls from anti-abortionists to overhaul existing protocols and strip charities and medics of their exclusive responsibility for counselling women seeking to terminate a pregnancy.

The Department of Health confirmed that it would change the rules to ensure that women are also offered counselling "independently" of existing abortion services. Its announcement was made in advance of an attempt next week led by the Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries to amend the health and social care bill to force such a requirement. Dorries says that the charity-run abortion services – including the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) and Marie Stopes – have a financial conflict of interest in advising women seeking terminations. She says that by offering independent counselling, 60,000 of the 200,000 abortions each year could be prevented.

The charities say that another layer of counselling could cause distress by delaying access to abortions. They also say that the counselling they offer is continuous throughout the process of seeking a termination and that there is no evidence they are biased in the care they provide.

Yvette Cooper, the shadow home secretary, said the government's decision was based on prejudice rather than evidence. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/28/anti-abortion-lobby-reforms

[FLPanhandle]

1. *sigh*

The craziness is spreading across the pond.

[lunatica]

2. Abortion clinics already help women by counseling for choices

Not only that but they provide pregnancy check-ups and pre-natal care. These stupid assholes think it must be some deep dark dungeon with fetus blood dripping from the rock walls and the Devil's minions dancing with glee in the corners.

[left on green only]

3. Oh boy! Another 60,000 to 200,000 hungry mouths to feed on our tiny planet

each year. It would appear that Nadine truly is a sadist. Why else would she so anxious to pollute the only planet we have to the point past sustainability? I always thought that backbenchers had higher IQ's than that.

[Solly Mack]

4. Damn

[DonCoquixote]

5. sorry to say this

But a lot of this is for the same reason it is here, because they older white population is scared that a bunch of brown people may become the new majority.

[enlightenment]

6. I don't usually refer to other women this way -

but Nadine Dorries is a lying bitch.

"Dorries, a former nurse who says she is campaigning on the issue after witnessing botched terminations, says she does not oppose abortion. However, she has previously campaigned to reduce the abortion time limit and said that her explicit aim was to reduce the number of terminations, claiming that 60,000 could be prevented each year if women were given independent advice."

"The abortion process is so fast – seven to 14 days. Women who do have doubts or niggles are on the other side before they have a chance to think it through. The majority may feel it's fine but there are a growing number thinking it wasn't what I wanted to do. As it gets faster and faster more women are falling off the edge. This is a women's rights issue."


She wants to make it as long, drawn-out, and painful a process as she possibly can.

Women's rights issue, my arse.

Lying bitch.