Groucho Marx said that: 'Those are my principles, and if you don't like them…well, I have others' and that comes to mind with Nigel Farage who has been spouting forth on the subject of abortions.
When it was revealed that he has been working with the whack-a-doodle right-wing US-based Christian group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), it was only a matter of time before the massive donation they made to his Party meant he would begin echoing their views and that day has come and the Reform UK leader this week said: 'It is ludicrous we allow abortion up to 24 weeks and that the law is totally out of date' and Parliament should debate rolling out stricter limits on abortion for women.
Now i take no side in the Abortion discussion, it is only between the man and woman directly involved but what i am for is having the choice left on the table so i hate it when religious types, or people speaking on behalf of them, stick their noses in and try and force their view onto people in what is already a difficult decision.
The ADF that Farage is working with has called for abortion to be banned as well as strip away protections for LGBTQ+ people, in the name of Christianity and that may be successful in America where Religion is taken much more seriously, but not so much in Britain where it plays almost no part in the decision making process.
There was a discussion a few years ago about cutting the legal limit to have an abortion from the current deadline of 24 weeks to 22 weeks but it was dismissed after Health Chiefs warned this could inflict cruelty on vulnerable women and 90% of abortions happen in this country are performed before 10 weeks and only 1% are after 20 weeks and they are due to fatal conditions that mean the child would not survive birth or is a danger to the mother if the pregnancy continued.
If Farage thinks he can stir up ideological feelings in a culture war using abortion then he should note that in a British Attitudes Survey, 90% of Brits supported abortion in some circumstances and over the last decade the UK has seen a string of victories for abortion rights such as decriminalisation in Northern Ireland, the permanent adoption of abortion pills by phone after the pandemic and the introduction of buffer zones around clinics.
It is far too important a decision to have someone else try to intimidate a woman into what they can and can't do with their own bodies because of their own beliefs and we cant allow them to chip away at the right to an abortion, however we feel about it.
Wednesday, 4 June 2025
Churchy Types And Abortions
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you either believe rights of all humans or you don't
> i support abortion up to 16 weeks - plenty of time to figure out you are pregnant, and time to see the sex
> i can understand 20 or even 24 weeks
> nothing to do with religion for me
it is a hard for me to decide between the right of a woman to end a life that is pretty certain to occur, and her right to control her body.
> i have more sympathy if the woman's birth control fails...
> i have less if she doesn't use birth control
> rape - no contest, unlimited abortion
> woman's physical life threatened - no contest
> woman's permanent health (like mobility, sight, etc.) - no contest
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I don’t support abortion but neither do I oppose it, it’s more to do with having the option for me.
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