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[EricNorthmansMistressOfPotions]

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

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[kelly2000]

Bumbley, why do you think that if you write something down, that means it is a source. Whenever you do not want to answer you claim " we discussed this earlier" etc.
Not one anti-abortionist has provided any good arguement for discriminating against pregnant women. Pregnancy is more dangerous than abortion, if we care about the safety of women then we need to inform them about the risks of all alternatives, and tell them the risks of pregnancy. so far the claim has been a) pregnancy is natural and b) we should not inform as it is the practice not to!!!.

Abortion counselling should tell a woman that the risks to her health and life are greater if she continues with the pregnancy, as this is the truth and if women seeking an abortion are going to be offered independent advice then so should pregnant women, so they can get a chance to be told all the risks of pregnancy and its alternatives. After all according to Dorries this ammendement has no interest in stopping abortions, but just helping women.