Abortion...when human life isn’t just cheap, it’s on special offer

Last updated at 9:29 PM on 24th May 2008

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Let's have no more of this footling about over abortion. The issue isn’t how old a baby has to be before you cannot kill it. It is whether you think it’s right to do away with another human to suit your convenience.

Those who wonder what they would have done if they had lived at the time of some terrible injustice now know the answer. We do live in such a time. And we do nothing.

I had resigned myself to the fact that we are a callous and barbarous society, selfish almost beyond belief and so twisted that we now regard children as a burden. I had thought the most practical way of dealing with this was to try at least to cut the age at which abortions can take place. But I now think that was wrong.

The abortionists are not interested in compromise. Why should they be? They have always known what they were doing. They must know by now that the more abortions you allow, the more you have. They have – for the moment – won the argument that you can kill if it’s convenient. And our whole society has adopted the same self-serving view, often without realising it.

Who cares about 3,000 road deaths a year? Nobody but the victims’ families. The rest of us would fight (to the death?) against the lower speed limits and the tough driving tests that would prevent this.

Who cares about the discarded old, stuffed into homes, drugged, bullied, then crammed with morphine to speed their departure?

And these are the attitudes of nice people, responsible, educated, clean in their habits.

It’s not surprising that the feral poor have spotted that they live in a country where life is not much valued. So why not end Friday night by kicking someone’s head as if it were a football? It’s not as if anyone will take it seriously.

Life’s not just cheap in modern Britain. It’s on permanent special offer. So let’s have an end to the polite truce about abortion. If it must be legal, then let it at least be despised. Since Parliament’s not going to curb it, let us call it what it is, a massacre conducted to suit the selfish.

Let’s not have any slippery rubbish about its supporters being ‘pro-choice’, when in fact they’re ‘pro-death’. What choice has the poor baby about being dismembered?

Given that none of us knows, or ever will know, just how much pain and misery is spread down the ages by one single stifling of an innocent life, can anyone tell me how an abortion can ever be better than letting the baby be born and adopted?

There are, as we know, plenty of people who would be only too happy to do the adopting.

Truth is washed away on Abbott’s desert isle

Labour MP and Olympic-scale hypocrite Diane Abbott was allowed to star on Desert Island Discs last week, but host Kirsty Young’s introduction failed to mention one of the most notable events in her life – when the MP, right, sent her son to a private school in direct opposition to her own noisy public statements.

Why? Was the reference cut? Did Ms Abbott threaten to walk out if it wasn’t? The BBC doesn’t deny it. Nor, despite some bluster, does Ms Abbott. If I were the BBC, I’d let her walk out and hold the door open.

She admits her hypocrisy over schools is ‘indefensible’. Well, in that case, she must either shove her son into one of the sink schools she urges on others or resign as an MP. There’s no honourable middle course.

Yet politicians of all parties now engage in this despicable form of doublethink, and nothing ever happens to them.

Welcome to the ‘saintly heaven’  of South Africa

The scenes of grisly murder in Johannesburg are significant as well as gruesome.
In the tangled, knotted mess of crossed wires and closed circuits that makes up a left-liberal’s mind, South Africa has a special place. When apartheid still existed, it was hell on earth. Now that apartheid has gone, it is a kind of heaven.

How can it be that this paradise has an immigrant problem? Surely everyone is welcome, as these people say everyone should be here?

How can the saintly  South Africans be so spectacularly less tolerant of mass immigration than the long-suffering British working class which left-liberals despise? How can that nice Thabo Mbeki preside over a state that deports illegal migrants with ruthless ferocity?

I’ll leave them to try to answer that. The trouble is, if they dare actually to
think about it, their poor overloaded brains will probably catch fire.

Vote Cameron...for Blair without the laughs

Yeah, yeah, the Tories are on the road to power, Samantha Cameron’s measuring the Downing Street curtains etc.

I have to admit that I never believed that our mighty media classes – who made Anthony Blair a star and have now made Gordon Brown an anti-star – could galvanise the Tory corpse to this extent.

Mind you, I should warn you that by-elections are not a guide to General Elections, and that the Tory ‘surge’ remains far smaller than claimed – a fact easily established if you look, as I have, at the details of the local polls.

And then, what about this? All the people now lauding the Tories used to be in the Blair choir. What changed? Them or the Tories? And, if the Tories do succeed, what’s good about that? A Cameron victory would destroy for ever the remaining proper conservatives in his party – because he would claim his ultra-liberal policies had won the Election.

And how liberal they all are. Did anyone notice that the anti-fatherhood abortion enthusiast George Osborne actually attacked Labour for trying to get the anti-immigrant vote? His objection didn’t seem to be that this was dishonest, as no pro-EU party can do anything about immigration. He thought raising the subject at all was ‘nasty’. Left-wing liberals think that and he’s one of them.

You read it first here. Vote for the Cameroons and you’ll get what you deserve, another ten years of Blairism – without the laughs.

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Cue for more enraged letters from a policeman’s angry mum, or that’s what she says she is. But isn’t it interesting how the Police Federation can offer a bold, even rather rude challenge to the Home Secretary about pay, but has never, to my knowledge, uttered a cheep or twitter of protest about the political correctness imposed upon its members? If the police ‘service’ really is full of people who secretly want to do the job properly and don’t like the diversity seminars and the Human Wrongs Act, why have they never done anything about it?

I will tell you. They care more about pay. In which case, they – and their angry mums – will just have to accept it when I call the police a useless nationalised industry.

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