1967 And All That

Diane Abbott is heading up a band of hardline United Irelanders in all parties who want to extend to Northern Ireland the 1967 Abortion Act. Even Abbott's attitude to private schools and to all black boys except her own son pales when compared to this.

These people are vigorous supporters of the Good Friday Agreement as the means to a 32-county republic (although, like the abolition of Catholic schools and like many other things besides, abortion on demand will happen in the present Republic long before it commands any real support in Northern Ireland), and are opposed to their own parties' organisation in Northern Ireland, yet they seem to have become total integrationists on this one issue alone.

Perhaps even more significantly, they have suddenly become fans of the 1967 Abortion Act. Whisper it not, but surely that can only mean that that Act already provides for abortion absolutely on demand, up to and including partial birth? As I say, whisper it not.