Joe Biden’s best chance – and 2024’s biggest wildcard – is the pro-abortion ad drop in October.
No fewer than 10,000 women who undertook DIY abortions in 2020 required hospital treatment for complications. A morally serious Parliament, in step with public opinion, should not assent to an amendment that treats abortion pills like sweets.
Voters can lean towards a lower limit and favour decriminalisation for the same reason they can favour higher spending and lower taxes. It is the duty of politicians to do better.
They bear all the hallmarks of irresponsible activism, intent on pushing the expansion of abortion at all costs regardless of the real-world impact.
A police force that sends six officers to arrest a silently praying Christian woman, but lacks resources to stop our streets from flooding with violence, is not one that reflects the values of a Western democratic society.
Advocates are concerned the public will lose interest if they aren’t driving major reforms; sceptics worry that politicians are outsourcing difficult questions to people with neither expertise nor mandate.
Activists who want free termination up to birth have allowed what was meant to be an emergency measure during Covid to become a dangerous new normal.
The upside of a new cross-party appointments process would be distance from the government of the day. The downside is the danger of boiling it down to a lowest common denominator.
Its most honest advocates concede it would effectively abolish the upper limit for terminating a pregnancy; only one per cent of women polled support this stance.
Our current legislation predates the state of the medical art on pregnancy, and makes it harder to secure early terminations.
A woman has just been arrested not even for speaking, but for thinking, the wrong thoughts. And it is a policy that could be rolled out across the country.
The most alarmingly disproportionate restrictions against the freedom to protest in the Public Order Bill aren’t targeted against ambulance-blockers but against people who hold pro-life views.
The move toward legalising every corner of life undermines community accountability, politicises justice, and paves the way for legally privileging fashionable causes over others.
Kruger’s comments yesterday represented that greatest of modern political sins: to have contentious opinions, and to express them.
Free votes should not allow ministers to evade responsibility for controversial issues