Does Sunak hate women?? His new Minister for Women Appointment is 100% anti-abortion.

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Just learned that Sunak has appointed Maria Caulfield as his Minister for Women! This is an MP who voted against legalizing abortion in Northern Ireland and wants the time-limit for abortion in the UK reduced. She has stood up in Parliament and lied, outright lied with a nonsense claim that fetuses born at 18 weeks have lived long and healthy lives - 100% untrue. She is against buffer zones outside clinics and she's a past officer of a pro-life, anti-abortion organisation.

WTF!! This is who Sunak thinks will look out for women's interests? 90% of the UK public support legal abortion, 1 in 3 women will need an abortion at some point.

There's a lot we don't actually know about Sunak and what sort of man he is but we're learning quickly...

Excellent. This is exactly what we need. I like him more every day.

As for having a minister who doesn’t believe in our bodily autonomy- horrific.

I'm quoting this with the same hope

Women dying of sepsis is just the price we pay, for eating apples, or something. I don't know. There's probably a really good reason for it.

Have you adopted many unwanted children?

Yep, during a cost of living crisis, underfunding to dangerous levels of every service, especially maternity care and education, austerity which includes no benefits for more than two children, an affordable housing crisis, what we need is forced births.

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Does a bell go off at Forced Birther HQ to bring you lot out?

Bloody hell 🙈😂

I don't think they'd get away with changing things now (or in the near future) either. But just this appointment is shifting the Overton window and legitimising these extreme, anti-bodily-autonomy views.

Children going hungry under Tory rule is fine. It's only choosing to not have children that's immoral.

Correct. Brexit has brought us to this point - and that's because Cameron thought the referendum would appease the hard right.

I mean, its literally happening right now before our eyes. Never seen so many forced birthers pop up so quickly on MN. Decisions like this empower them.

Just to make sure @HeidiCr sees it. No one should be forced into a life they don't want.

If you don’t want to have a baby then you should be taking proper precautions or abstaining from sex. It’s not okay to be so careless with life.

Abortion should only be legal in cases of rape or medical need.

"We had all the discussion and debate necessary about a woman’s right to abortion over 50 years ago. It’s been done and dusted for more than half a century"

Women in the US would probably disagree with you about that.....

I don't understand why the people who shout the loudest about abortion are never the ones shouting the loudest about healthcare, benefits, food poverty.

It's almost like it's literally about punishing women and nothing to do with 'saving babies'

I really hope you see that before I get deleted.

Me too.

You've never been the victim of rape then?

THANK-YOU

Of course they would but we’re not talking about the US, are we?

If a woman has been raped, why must she admit it in order to get an abortion? A man has already taken something away from her, it should be her decision whether to tell anyone (including the police).

I'm not saying all women who want abortions have been raped, because that's not true. But if just one of them has been raped, I'd rather not insist on a reason because I don't want to add to her trauma.

Imagine going through with an unwanted pregnancy because you can't bring yourself to talk about the rape that caused it.

We have to trust women to make the decisions that are right for them, and to support them in doing so.