Nadine Dorries vs Marie Stopes

Nadine Dorries, defender of council housing from David Cameron, although quite wrong to blame the Coalition's anti-conservative policies on the Lib Dems as if Cameron and most of the rest of her Commons co-partisans were not of exactly the same views?

Or Marie Stopes, author of extravagant, versified love letters to Hitler? Marie Stopes, who disowned her own son because he married a woman who wore glasses. Marie Stopes, who campaigned for the compulsory sterilisation of "the C3 population", of "half-castes" and of "revolutionaries", among numerous others. Marie Stopes, who opened dozens of clinics in working class areas to reduce the number of "undesirables" by persuasion if force were politically impossible.

Yet those clinics now retain the right to "counsel" women considering the abortions that they have a gigantic financial interest in ensuring go ahead. They still carry the name of Marie Stopes. Our televisions now carry their adverts. Our 50p stamps have recently carried her image. And we all carry the shame.