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More good new from jolly old England
May 7, 2008 |
My apologies for turning this blog into a report on what’s being written in the Telegraph, but I couldn’t pass up this horrible story.
Two pilot studies where women were offered medical abortions outside normal hospital conditions have been successful.
The findings could lead to early abortions, before nine weeks gestation, being offered in much more widely as the Government battles to control Britain’s teenage pregnancy epidemic. [ed: ah, lovely. Not only are we dealing with an epidemic, evidently the only way to deal with it is to get these girls abortions - STAT! But at least the Brits are kind enough to acknowledge that abortion is just another form of population control.]
Ministers want to extend access to early abortions, which can be carried out with drugs in the early stages, as it is safer [ed: well, not for the little murdered child] and could prevent many late terminations.
Well, whatever we can do to reduce the inconveeeeeenience that all must surely face. And it’s good to know that we have only the mother’s best interests at heart.
Public Health Minister Dawn Primarolo said: “Our priority is to reduce the time women have to wait for an abortion at what is already a very difficult time for them.
“We want to investigate whether patients can be more comfortable and feel as supported in a less clinical setting such as in a large community contraceptive centre.
“However, the safety of patients must remain paramount and we will now consult with the local NHS and patients to find out whether there is a demand for such a service and how it could best be delivered.”
Man, don’t you just love the language here. It’s as though these women were going in for root canals, and we need to find ways to make them feel a little more comfy. And yes, it is a diffcult time, and while I don’t want to be too facile about it - it’s because of their own damned decisions that it’s a difficult time for them. Instead of treating them like poor victims that need an extra cushy bed to lie in, why don’t we - oh I don’t know - actually treat them like adults and expect them to take responsibility for their own actions.
And of course they don’t dare talk about this is any way that would suggest this might be in anyway a morally troubling issue. Oh no. Goal number one is creature comfort. Can’t have the lady wait a little before she has the child growing insider her massacred.
Man, and I thought the culture of death permeated our country.