Tim Worstall

As you all know I’m rather out of step with the rest of society on the subject of abortion. Up here on my pink clouds it’s wrong and shouldn’t happen. However, I’m a little confused about this growing furore about Dr. Kermit Gosnell. OK, so it was dirty, messy, incompetent and all that. Bad. But [...]

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If babies had guns, they wouldn’t be aborted. As we all know I’m well out of tune with everyone else on this subject. But that is a blinder of an election bumper sticker. Full marks for motivating the base on that one.

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Ann Furedi, the chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, said that pregnant women and doctors actively “pretend” that the women’s mental health is at risk so that they can sign off abortions without questions being asked. And the chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners said a woman simply saying that she [...]

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Roe v Wade 40th anniversary: how have your views on abortion evolved? Four decades after the supreme court legalised abortion in the US, we want to know how you feel about the ongoing debate The Supreme Court did not legalise abortion in the US. It stopped people from passing laws to make it illegal. There [...]

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The abortion of unwanted girls taking place in the UK Illegal abortion on the grounds of gender may be taking place in Britain within immigrant communities, ministers have admitted for the first time after an official analysis of birth statistics. The standard claim from certain quarters is that we should have abortion on demand. If [...]

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The fact that an MP who can spread such inaccuracies Umm, if we’re going to ban MPs from spreading inaccuracies then what are they going to do all day?

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Unfortunately, we have a pretty good idea of what a Romney presidency will be like for us as well. The former governor of Massachusetts has said he would remove Planned Parenthood’s funding and overturn the supreme court case that legalised abortion……….If abortion is made illegal – a very real possibility under a Romney administration – [...]

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Because – and this is what Hasan is fundamentally missing in his entire piece – those babies were wanted. Which is the fundamental point that I reject. The civil rights of a human being do not change given whether someone wants them around or not. We insist in fact that civil rights are more important [...]

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What we need is for abortion to be decriminalised and treated like any other operation: Canada managed this in 1988 without the country falling apart. No, really, just no. For, as you say: Since then the second national study of babies born in 2006 has been published and there is no significant change in the [...]

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Diane Abbott MP, Labour’s shadow public health minister, said: “I think women and families across the country will find it staggering that the priority for this government is playing politics with people’s lives, like this. Whatever your view on where the abortion time limit should be it is a decision made by politicians. It is [...]

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Call me an old-fashioned feminist but isn’t that the real point of accepting the limit for what it is; a date that simply allows women time to make up their own minds about something deeply personal. Your support or otherwise for abortion limits should simply be a matter of personal choice. Friends, colleagues and acquaintances [...]

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Davey says, however, that there are huge opportunities for the British economy from investment in low-carbon energy infrastructure projects, including wind and solar energy, carbon capture storage and new nuclear power, all of which make up a large part of projected spending of £118bn in the sector over the next decade. Last year alone £12.7bn [...]

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The success of the Paralympics should trigger a rethink of Britain’s abortion laws to make it illegal to terminate a pregnancy because a child will be born disabled, a coalition of campaigners and charities argues today. For there is a problem with the law as it stands: An alliance of pro-life campaigners and religious groups [...]

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Children aren’t commodities, and families should not be seen as toy sets, uncompleted until you have all the different figurines. When someone spends £30,000 flying to New York to select the sex of their next child, they aren’t choosing life. They are choosing a lifestyle. And that is very different. Actually, ever since we said [...]

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Experiencing my own abortion and photographing the result was a sobering experience. For of course you did not experience your own abortion. You experienced the abortion of your child. Who is not, of course, around to tell us what it was like. My mother had an illegal abortion some 30 or so years ago……Soon after, [...]

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A new generation of doctors will be put off from becoming involved in abortion services by high-profile protest campaigns and a political “witch-hunt”, providers fear. The current climate is already causing anxiety among doctors who are concerned that their practice will be called into question, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) said, as activists behind [...]

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Andrew Lansley is playing politics with abortion provision Err, yes. The man’s an elected politician and abortion is part of his ministerial brief. Wat do you expect him to do with the subject other than play politics with it? Hockey?

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No doubt it’s a serious matter that some abortion clinics are said to be flouting the law and getting consent forms pre-signed by doctors. Well, technically anyway. It’s the law that’s wrong, of course. It pretends there has to be some sort of medical reason why a woman would want an abortion, a medical reason [...]

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BPAS chief executive Ann Furedi said she was appalled that the media had been told about the latest inspections before the clinics. She said: “Abortion doctors provide an important service to women who are often in difficult circumstances. “Their work is already intensely scrutinised, with clinics regularly inspected by the Care Quality Commission. “Mr Lansley [...]

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“I completely understand the law doesn’t require the doctor to have met the woman concerned, but to pre-sign certificates when you don’t even know which woman it relates to and there hasn’t been an assessment, is completely contrary to the spirit and letter of the law.” He added that action would be taken within days. [...]

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