Anti-choice Tory Bill voted down!

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries' Ten Minute Rule Bill to have the abortion time limit reduced was overwhelming defeated in the House of Commons this week! Yay!

Labour MP Chris McCafferty argued against the Bill, and she correctly stressed that the best way to reduce abortions was through improving access to contraception and providing better education for both men and women about sexual health. Despite the Bill's defeat, many MPs did vote in favour of further restricting women's reproductive rights, 108 in fact, which is quite depressing. This makes the upcoming Abortion Rights pro-choice lobby even more important!

I watched the verdict live online at work and it was a truly wonderful result. You can read the two speeches here and even re-watch the live footage here. Note the sneaky use of pro-choice pro-feminist rhetoric used in Dorries' speech, frightening.

If you want a good cackle read Nadine Dorries blog were she comes across as a complete flake. In it she makes the claim that many extremist pro-choice groups have been harassing her. Considering there is only one pro-choice national lobby organisation, Abortion Rights, and they only have two staff members, I find this quite hard to believe. Especially considering harassment techniques are routinely deployed by the anti-choice lobby, not us.

Bring on Abortion on Demand!