What horrifies me is that any parliamentarian should want to decriminalise the fatal poisoning or dismemberment of unborn babies that are so well developed that they could survive outside the womb. No amount of sugar coating this can remove the repellent reality of what – if the law is changed in the way certain MPs want – could end up happening.
Ms. Creasy, for example.
Isabel can be intensely irritating at times, but she is 110% right on this.
I’m sorry but Feminists, or indeed anyone, who advovates late term abortions like this are simply evil.
Just because something is freely available does not make it a right. Fresh clean water is not a right, a warm home is not a right, abortion is not a right.
Alternative take: this is just the usual hypocritical crap we get from journalists and politicians.
“I’ve done it and my class will always be able to do it, but you proles shouldn’t be allowed to do it!”
[To avoid doubt, I’m utterly against late term abortions unless the mother’s life is in danger. I just hate sanctimonious bien pensants saying privileges they’ve exercised should not be allowed for others.]
Ottokring
“Just because something is freely available does not make it a right. Fresh clean water is not a right, a warm home is not a right, abortion is not a right.”
Just read this interesting article on negative (state limiting) vs positive (forcing the state to do something) rights, in light of the ECHR rulings yesterday and how the latter started fairly benignly, but are only going to increase. in scope.
https://newsfromuncibal.substack.com/p/the-right-to-be-protected-from-the
In a recent episode of “The View” the gloriously inept Whoopi Goldberg defended abortion by pointing out “it’s not forbidden in the big ten (awkward silence). You know, the Ten Commandments”.
The courts have gotten out of control and when they were supposed to act as a brake on government overreach during Covid they totally bottled it.
In a recent episode of “The View” the gloriously inept Whoopi Goldberg defended abortion by pointing out “it’s not forbidden in the big ten (awkward silence). You know, the Ten Commandments”.
Thou shalt not kill; but need’st not strive
Officiously to keep alive
The Latest Decalogue by Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
Gunker
Thank you very much. Excellent article.
The philosophical problem that I have is determining what is a right and what is a privilege and what is a duty.
For instance : primary and secondary education is a right but tertiary/higher education is a privilege.
But in fact since 1870 education in England is not a right but a duty. By that I mean that local authorities are required to provide it and parents are compelled to send their children to school. Therefore a child does not have a right to be educated but a compulsion to do so and in fact does not have the right not to be educated.
Oh dear.
I have the right to vote.
It is my civic duty to vote but also my right not to.
In Belgium one is compelled to vote and has no right not to.
As a Free Man ( ie not a slave ) I have the right to access to justice, but only because I live in a society that has a rule of law and has had one since the Romans were here ( I cannot speak for the Celts but I’m sure that they had some representation before the Chief). That is a fundamental aspect of human society because otherwise we would live in some Lockeian natural state of anarchy.
Sorry for rambling, but I find it very difficult. Poor old JS Mill would find the modern world a perplexing place.