With the battle to modernise Britain’s abortion law (and give women in Northern Ireland access to abortion) in sight next month – Abortion Rights has a lobby on October 7 – now seems as apt time to glance south, where in the Australian state of Victoria, women are tantalisingly close to winning full decriminalisation to 24 weeks (the law having passed the lower house).
But, The Age newspaper reports, on just how nasty the anti-choicers get. (I’ve heard from British MPs that they also regularly do the plastic foetuses thing here.)
And a link from one of the feminist lists I’m on reports on just how intellectually incoherent they are prepared to be in their arguments – not even trying to hold them up under sustained questioning. This from the organisation to which the prospective US vice-president belongs.
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