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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Dorries' anti-abortion bill mark 2 - this time it's undemocratic.

14 replies

MildlyNarkyPuffin · 26/01/2012 19:13

I knew it was too good to be true when Frank Field pulled support from Dorries' fruit loop bill right before the reading.

Here's why.

Same old shit but without any electoral accountability.

When this goes to 'public' Hmm consultation you know the christian right will shout the loudest. I'm going to be there with my megaphone laptop making sure my voice is heard.

Anyone who doesn't have an MP who actually supported the Dorries disaster even after the governmenmt withdrew it's support might consider expressing their concern in writing www.writetothem.com about the all-party group convened to discuss the rules on abortion counselling and the weight that will be given to the views of religious groups during the consultation.

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SardineQueen · 26/01/2012 19:45

Thank you for posting this narky. I am really shocked but not that surprised.

Diane Abbott said this "British social conservatives are increasingly borrowing language and tactics from the US Christian right's playbook" and I think this is absolutely true and really terrifying. Terrifying because these tactics are so well thought out, they make ideas like this sound so reasonable and so everyone says, yes, that makes sense but it's covering up such an awful agenda.

We like to think that we could never end up like the US with abortion etc but it could happen, it really could.

StewieGriffinsMom · 27/01/2012 11:29

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PattiMayor · 27/01/2012 11:32

I wrote to my MP last time and she made it pretty clear that she would have supported Dorries' bill last time. Angry

PattiMayor · 27/01/2012 11:32

Sorry, that's really badly written!

slug · 27/01/2012 11:49

I follow Mad Nad on twitter (know the mind of your enemy and all that)

This is her comment on the Diane Abbot resignation

I think the real reason Diane Abbott has left the harmonious cross party consultation committee is a crude attempt to 'Divide and Conquer'.

The cross party committee has had two and a half meetings - Daine fell asleep throughout the 1st, missed the 2nd, was late for the 3rd.

Diane Abbott's real reason for leaving the committee could be because she hasn't got a clue what is going on!

Despite having been given an unprecedented opportunity to influence the Govs consultation document. The word lazy springs to mind.

I'm not sure what to make of her tweets. Usually it's self serving nonsense that totally ignores everything going around her. I suspect she is a little rattled.

SardineQueen · 27/01/2012 13:06

I find it hard to believe that she was asleep through the entire first meeting Hmm

slug · 27/01/2012 13:43

Nadine Dorries is not known for her close association with the concept of "truth".

Even she has admitted that her blog is 70% fiction. And lets not forget the £24,000 she claimed for her "second home" which, in fact, turned out to be her one and only home.

EduStudent · 30/01/2012 23:04

I managed to write to 2 MPs, one was adamant they would fight it, that ipthey absolutely agreed that it was horrendous, one was so bloody tepid it was a vinous they were just avoiding saying they whole-heatedly supported it Angry

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to word an email? I'm awful at writing down what I want to say articulately and without sounding like a toddler having a tantrum.

WidowWadman · 31/01/2012 10:21

slug - does she actually have an account - I can only see parody accounts

SweetTheSting · 31/01/2012 10:37

Wrote to mine last time. He wrote back saying he supported it. Grr.

AThingInYourLife · 31/01/2012 10:47

Well done Diane Abbott!

This is where Nadine Dorries wants to take us:

New law requires women to name baby, paint nursery before having an abortion :o

Dworkin · 31/01/2012 11:14

Dorries speaks for all women of course Hmm when she says:

"A lot of women don't want to abort but they feel they are on a conveyor belt they can't get off."

That quote was taken from the first link in op's post. Homewrecker Nadine is just making this up as she goes along, with disregard to the actual statistics. I use 'homewrecker' as a right wing woman's term Wink.

MitchieInge · 31/01/2012 11:47

My MP didn't support her last time, not because he gives a fuck about his constituents having any sort of autonomy over their reproductive health but because it was so badly thought out. I really enjoyed corresponding with him about it but it was scary too, he said 'I sense that abortion is used too often as contraception' I am still waiting for him to reassure me that he isn't representing us using mainly his half formed senses but sometimes considers whether there is any evidence for any such assertion.

slug · 31/01/2012 12:45

I give you: blog.dorries.org/

Which, despite the way it looks is not a parody. You will note the comments are disabled.

She can also be found pretending to be a feminist on twitter @NadineDorriesMP

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