{"id":2069,"date":"2007-05-26T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-26T13:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2007-05-26T13:18:36","modified_gmt":"2007-05-26T13:18:36","slug":"abortion-defend-it-now-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"Abortion: defend it now in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A message that I just sent to my MP:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I understand that on June 5, Ann Winterton will table a Ten Minute Rule Bill to impose mandatory counselling on women seeking an abortion.<br \/>\nThis is a condescending, cynical attempt to chip away at women&#8217;s abortion rights that will lead to further delays in service provision: and some women already have to wait up to five week! for an NHS<br \/>\nabortion.<br \/>\nThis is the third anti-choice Bill in less than a year, and reflects a contempt for parliamentary procedures in a refusal to accept the democratic decision.<br \/>\nPlease make the effort to actively oppose this bill, by voting against it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you are in the UK, please do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>(As a result of an alert from <a href = \"http:\/\/www.abortionrights.org.uk\/component\/option,com_frontpage\/Itemid,1\/\">Abortion Rights<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A message that I just sent to my MP: I understand that on June 5, Ann Winterton will table a Ten Minute Rule Bill to impose mandatory counselling on women seeking an abortion. This is a condescending, cynical attempt to chip away at women&#8217;s abortion rights that will lead to further delays in service provision: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}