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There is an article here about the proposed amendments to the health and social care bill which will force women to undergo 'independent' counselling before being allowed to choose to terminate a pregnancy. The assumption is that BPAS and the like have a financial investment in encouraging women to terminate and as such their counselling is biased. The stated goal is to reduce the number of terminations per year by forcing women to delay between seeking and receiving termination, and having to undergo additional counselling (political bias unknown, though easily guessed at) prior to the termination. ND hopes that woman will change their minds during this enforced extended waiting period.

If you think this is a shit idea you can email your MP by clicking this link

This is not a request to vote on anything at all

My MP will be thrilled to hear from me.

still waiting for a reply from MP on my last missive, lazy cow

Thanks for posting this.

thanks. have emailed my mp (who probably won't reply, again, but I like to keep nagging). would like to sign e-petition. perhaps guidance how to find it without posting the link itself will be allowed?

Done. Thanks for the link.

Ok.

"forcing women to delay between seeking and receiving termination, and having to undergo additional counselling (political bias unknown, though easily guessed at) prior to the termination."

Words fail me. I'll email my MP. Can someone allude to the whereabouts of the correct petition please?

Done! Thanks for linking. Important issue.

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Counselling is great - if sought. Voluntary all the way.

<mutters about knobrashes>

Have clicked. I am appalled by this, and by the fact that ND thinks that she supports women's rights

Very much agreed. I abhor the belief that grown women should be forced into discussing and justifying their decisions to complete stranger.

wasn't it Nadine Dorris who recently claimed children were to blame for child abuse? I'm sure I recall something of that nature. Appalling woman.

ND is a toxic excuse of a woman.

I have a double-whammy.

My MP just happens to be the Secretary of State for Health.

Mr Lansley, you'd better start listening... !

edam - yes. she said something about how if more girls were taught to say no we would see fewer cases of child abuse.

That'd be Andrew Lansley who has given control of public health policy to the manufacturers of processed food and fizzy pop... I doubt he has any interest in the welfare of women seeking abortion, tbh.

Done, and thanks for the link!

<clicks again>

Thanks Spoons

<dunks the biscuit that recklesspixie dropped in a >

Wtf? What happened to the first thread and why is the petition link a sore point?