The children’s writer G P Taylor is a very liberal Anglican cleric. But he was on Jeremy Vine today rightly campaigning to stop women from smoking during pregnancy on the grounds of the rights of the preborn child.
The programme revealed that this was increasingly common in pursuit of smaller babies and thus easier births. And a lady called in to point out that if people could harm their children before birth, then they could harm their children after birth. Quite so.
Furthermore, if people can kill their children before birth, then they can kill their children after birth.
If that is also this lady’s view, then she can never be on a Labour, if any, all-women shortlist. Labour requires no specific policy commitment in respect of these devices as such. With one exception. In order to be considered for an all-women shortlist, it is absolutely compulsory to declare one’s support for abortion entirely on demand at every stage in pregnancy, up to and including partial birth.
There is going to be an all-women shortlist here in North West Durham. Someone should be putting the word out, perhaps leafleting just off church premises on Sundays, that the Labour candidate must by definition be in favour of abortion entirely on demand at every stage in pregnancy (up to and including partial birth), and could not otherwise have been selected. It will be a mortal sin to vote for her, never mind to campaign for her or to sign her nomination paper.
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"It will be a mortal sin to vote for her, never mind to campaign for her or to sign her nomination paper." Consett and neighbouring councillors who depend on the Catholic Church for your seats, take note. Priests take note when it comes to giving Communion. And new bishop, make sure that they do.
ReplyDeleteBefore any of that, it would have to be established beyond all doubt that this was true. Not on the basis of "everyone knows" but actual documentary evidence or direct testimony from the women in question.
ReplyDeleteThat what "was true"? If she's off an AWS, then she's off Emily's List, which you can only get on by holding these views, although no other specific policy commitment is required. "Emily" confirms this on another thread. Everyone who knows anything about these things knows this axiomatically.
ReplyDeleteEr, I don't think "Emily" is *actually* someone from Emily's list
ReplyDelete"Emily" on the other thread almost certainly isn't the Emily of Emily's List.
ReplyDeleteAlso, you don't have to be anything to do with Emily's List to be on an AWS. You just have to be a woman.
The equivalent organisation campaigning for more LGB Labour representation in parliament is called Dorothy's List, which you have to admit is a really good gag.
ReplyDeleteNo, but everything she says is perfectly true and common knowledge. You have to support partial-birth abortion to be on Emily's List. And otherwise you stand no chance of getting on an AWS. Fact of life, so to speak.
ReplyDeleteYes, Frost, I have to admit that. But I'm not starting any thread along the lines of "What would [...] List be called, and why?"
ReplyDeleteJust how arrogant could they be to think that they could impose someone like that on a seat like this without her even being the old MP's daughter?
ReplyDeleteThis is just wrong. Emily's List has supported only a small proportion of female Labour MPs.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 17:32, we are talking about those selected specifically off all-women shortlists.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 17:22, never underestimate the arrogance of these people.
Of course, Labour might either not have an AWS for Hilary Armstrong's successor, or else select a pro-life woman not on Emily's List. If they want to give the radical feminist commentariat such a Roman holiday (I'm sorry, I couldn't resist it), then they can make my day.