Tim Worstall

Last time there was a move in the Commons to make abortion law more restrictive, it actually become looser. Yes, the limit was lowered from 28 weeks to 24 weeks, but an exception was made for either deformity to the child of danger to the mother. In those cases abortion could happen up to full […]

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As ever when the subject is abortion. Polly:

Never mind that the whole notion of viability has no rational connection to any limit on the date for abortions: from the moment of conception every zygote is potentially viable.

Quite, therefore it’s wrong to stop it moving from potentially viable to it being viable.

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Yes, I know my views on this matter (explained often enough passim) are well out of step with most other peoples’ but if viability is the guide, if someone is not human if they cannot live outside the womb and is if they can, well, this seems a pretty strong argument:

The data, for births in […]

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It is surely no coincidence that these films are emerging from a country that has had eight years of ultra-conservative Republican rule. A report last week showed that abortions in the US have fallen by 25% since 1990, and 2006 saw the largest number of children born for 45 years - but the teenage birth […]

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Women who have had an abortion or miscarriage are more likely to give birth to premature or underweight babies, according to research.

I know it’s only the newspaper report, not the paper, but I wonder whether they controlled for social class (or wealth if you prefer). Way back when (this is 50s and 60s information being […]

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Quite:

In so far as ethics should determine a time limit on abortion, the relevant question is at what stage, if at all, a foetus should be regarded as a person,

At what point does a person, a person whose right to life should be protected, created? That is, absolutely, the nub of the entire argument. Until […]

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Talking about abortion:

Mammaries are the favourite target of all religions, not mammon.

?? What do tits have to do with it? Ovaries, gonads, uteri, perhaps, but mammaries?
As to the larger debate going on over abortion I think she doth protest too much. Much too much. For we can see what’s going to happen here, as in […]

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