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To ask pro-choice MNers to email your MPs? <this is not a request to vote on anything>

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EricNorthmansMistressOfPotions · 29/08/2011 14:55

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

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UsingMainlySpoons · 29/08/2011 14:58

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ripstheirthroatoutliveupstairs · 29/08/2011 14:59

My MP will be thrilled to hear from me.

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defrocked · 29/08/2011 15:00

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

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StewieGriffinsMom · 29/08/2011 15:01

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iskra · 29/08/2011 15:03

Thanks for posting this.

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MamaChocoholic · 29/08/2011 15:03

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?

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NacMacFeegle · 29/08/2011 15:06

Done. Thanks for the link.

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reelingintheyears · 29/08/2011 15:10

Ok.

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Rapaccioli · 29/08/2011 15:14

"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?

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marimo · 29/08/2011 15:14

Done! Thanks for linking. Important issue.

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LittleMissFlustered · 29/08/2011 15:15


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

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UsingMainlySpoons · 29/08/2011 15:17

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BecauseImWorthIt · 29/08/2011 15:19

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

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Rapaccioli · 29/08/2011 15:20

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

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edam · 29/08/2011 15:20

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.

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LittleMissFlustered · 29/08/2011 15:22

ND is a toxic excuse of a woman.

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DogsBestFriend · 29/08/2011 15:23

I have a double-whammy.

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

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

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iskra · 29/08/2011 15:25

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

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recklesspixie · 29/08/2011 15:25
Biscuit
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UsingMainlySpoons · 29/08/2011 15:27

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edam · 29/08/2011 15:29

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.

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BellsaRinging · 29/08/2011 15:29

Done, and thanks for the link!

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LittleMissFlustered · 29/08/2011 15:29


Thanks Spoons

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banjaxedfilly · 29/08/2011 15:31

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

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soymama · 29/08/2011 15:31

Thanks for posting OP

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