Tim Worstall

This really does amuse me: America’s largest breast cancer advocacy group has been forced to make a self-abasing retraction of its plan to cut funding for Planned Parenthood following a huge outcry against the decision. Yes, yes, I know the politics. If you’re against breast cancer then you’re in favour of all sorts of wimmins’ [...]

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I know I’m out of step with many…..with most….on this subject but: They had both previously given notice of conscientious objection to any involvement in abortions and said they were not expected to participate in such treatment. But in 2007 the health board introduced changes that meant patients undergoing medical terminations were cared for in [...]

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But an interesting argument all the same. If we are to be truly utilitarian, the pleasure of a woman who is able to adopt a baby must be included in our calculations along with the relief of a woman who is able to abort one she doesn’t want.

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Women who have abortions are at risk of severe mental health problems, new research has found. Regular readers around here will know that I’m predisposed to believe such a finding. However, this specific researcher, a Dr. Coleman, has form in the area: The study said that abortion was linked with a 34 per cent greater [...]

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I have to say that I didn’t think that this would be where the two, abortion and the Equality Act, would first meet: After receiving a letter from the centre, the hospital initially told the nurses that they would be excused from administering the abortion-inducing drugs but would have to remain working at the clinic. [...]

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The plans have sparked controversy, with pro-life campaigners accusing advertising authorities of “trivialising” human life by treating terminations as a consumer choice like cars or washing powder. They emerged as a report accused clinics of using “hard sell” marketing to push pregnant women seeking counselling into having terminations, in order to make more money. Under [...]

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Much of the literature on sex selection has suggested that cultural patterns explain the phenomenon. But Hvisten dahl lays the blame squarely on western governments and businesses that have exported technology and pro-abortion practices without considering the consequences. Amniocentesis and ultrasound scans have had largely positive applications in the west, where they have been used [...]

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But you simply cannot call yourself “pro-choice” and then bar people who do not agree with you from expressing their opposing view. It’s an oxymoronic position. People who defend such regressive behaviour, simply mirror that of the dictatorial hardliners they supposedly stand against. Then they wonder why they get called “feminazis”. Quite.

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A group which is opposed to abortion in all circumstances and favours an abstinence-based approach to sex education has been appointed to advise the government on sexual health. The Life organisation has been invited to join a new sexual health forum set up to replace the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV. Stuart [...]

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For who?

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But true for a certain value of “true”. Bill de Blasio, the city’s public advocate, described the advertisement as “grossly offensive to women and minorities”. “This billboard simply doesn’t belong in New York City,” said Mr de Blasio. “Common decency demands it be taken down.” Christine Quinn, the Speaker of New York city council, said: [...]

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From Dizzy. I don’t actually agree with it for as is well known, my views on this subject are well outside the mainstream (for the avoidance of doubt, killing people is wrong except in immediate self defence or the course of a Just War and yes, this is killing people). But it is a very [...]

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Now, anyone know where I can buy some ferrets? I have a business idea. Dizzy.

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Over at LibCon. The second Abortion Support Network ‘Pro Choice Happy Hour’ will be: Monday 1 March 7-10 pm Yes, I know, they’re having a booze up to raise money for Irish women who come over to have abortions. Yes, I know, I’m very out of step on this subject. But really, “happy” and “abortion” [...]

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If proof were needed that there is something seriously wrong with both our moral values and sex education system, it comes with the new that of the 195,000 abortions performed in this country last year, more than one third were repeats. No, not even our beloved NHS is that bad and incompetent at hoicking babies [...]

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Anti-abortion activists were reinvigorated ahead of the opening of the healthcare legislation debate in the Senate today by their success in garnering support in the House of Representatives over an issue that was widely regarded as having lost its political potency with the election of a pro-choice president. At the core of the strategy by [...]

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Some 12,000 abortions a year were performed legally, to prevent the woman from ‘being a mental and physical wreck’. But the great majority were not, leading each year to some 70 or more registered deaths from criminal-abortions. That’s from David Kynaston’s latest book from the Mass Observation archives…..a pretty reliable source.

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Guardian headline: Unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year And in the article: There were 41.6m terminations worldwide in 2003 The facts we might take away from this being that unsafe abortions kill 70,000 a year and safe abortions kill 41,600,000 a year. Update: thinking a little more about this. The unsafe abortions will of course [...]

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Fascinating numbers here. Proof yet again of the economist’s saw that there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. The subject here is the always contentious one of abortion…..and Down’s and testing for it. The tests themselves, specifically amniocentesis to confirm the diagnosis, carries a risk of causing miscarriage. A total of 366,000 women in England had [...]

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A chance gathering in my kitchen: three people. My wife, who has some gypsy blood. Eddie. A friend who is Jewish. And the realisation that, under Hitler, all three would have been bound for the ovens. Down’s syndrome, any more than Jewishness or gipsyhood, is not something that needs to be wiped out for the [...]

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