Fertility

What else that cost as much as IVF but which had such a failure rate – frankly, it doesn’t work – would be available on the NHS? Add to that the fact that each year, 80 women who have become pregnant through IVF have abortions. Read that one over again. Back in March 2009, even the liberal "Left" media (are there others?) finally realised what the rest of us had been saying for years.

And now the age limit is to be put up, while same-sex couples are to be given an entitlement.

Only under the Conservatives, of course. If Labour has the good sense to whip neither this nor the redefinition of marriage, then it will establish itself as the only party in which traditional – or, as one might otherwise put it, sane – views on these matters were permitted to be held, expressed, and acted upon. As much as the promise of a referendum on EU membership, this is potentially a means of bringing out the core Labour vote while simultaneously bringing on board what had previously been assumed to be the unreachable core Tory vote. That latter will still, of course, be Tory. But it will no longer be fooled into voting Conservative as an expression of that Toryism.

If the Conservative Party can find an alternative constituency in favour of crippling provincial economies by slashing the spending power of public employees far from London, in favour of breaking up of the National Health Service with a view to its piecemeal privatisation, in favour of turning Sunday into a normal shopping day, in favour of devastating rural communities by selling off our Post Office and of our roads (the latter to oil-rich foreign states, as such), in favour of abolishing Gift Aid, in favour of imposing VAT on church repairs, and in favour of whipping MPs to support both the redefinition of marriage to include same-sex couples and the extension to such couples of access to fertility treatment, then good luck to it. Whatever else those constituents will be, they will certainly not be Tories.

Meanwhile, NaProTech, Natural Procreative Technology, is an ethical, healthy and far more successful alternative to IVF. Unlike IVF, in NaProTech no embryonic children are killed or exposed to harm in the laboratory, and couples’ relationships are strengthened. As they are also strengthened by Natural Family Planning, which is more effective than anything else if it is taught properly (as is admitted even by the WHO, hardly a Vatican puppet), which involves no poisoning of women in order to make them permanently available for the sexual gratification of men, which can only be practised by faithful couples, and the practitioners of which almost, if almost, never divorce.