It's horrible, but it's a liberating factor in some ways, because it means one can vote on other issues.
One difference between the UK and USA is that in the UK hostility to abortion, as a minority position, overwhelmingly Catholic, cuts across the political spectrum. There are Catholic Worker types on the left of the Labour Party who are pro-life, and SPUC's current campaign is against the two-child benefit cap, i.e. a leftist position. On the other hand, Thatcher was pro-abortion, and some of the right-wing of the Conservatives have been rabidly so, in their eugenic drive to stop the working class breeding.
In Canada, where I live, abortion is a given. It’s never a political point. Never comes up at election time. I think the UK is similar.
Yes, the UK is like that.
It's horrible, but it's a liberating factor in some ways, because it means one can vote on other issues.
One difference between the UK and USA is that in the UK hostility to abortion, as a minority position, overwhelmingly Catholic, cuts across the political spectrum. There are Catholic Worker types on the left of the Labour Party who are pro-life, and SPUC's current campaign is against the two-child benefit cap, i.e. a leftist position. On the other hand, Thatcher was pro-abortion, and some of the right-wing of the Conservatives have been rabidly so, in their eugenic drive to stop the working class breeding.
JT tried to remove the charitable donation status of crisis pregnancy centres in Canada.