"I spent 18 years campaigning against them." That line about the Conservative Party dates the only telephone conversation that I have ever had with Victoria Gillick. I have never met her, yet I am thinking of her today.
As in the Gillick case, a Conservative Government with an enormous majority and with the particularly strong support of the party's right wing is fighting tooth and nail. But if Keira Bell prevailed over that Government, then that would be the end of Margaret Thatcher's offensively named "Gillick competence".
Following a ruling that children could not give consent to puberty blockers, castration, and so forth, then we could move to raise the age of consent to 18 while outlawing the performance of abortion or the prescription of contraception below that age without parental knowledge and consent.
If at all. Unless there were some medical condition, such as certain menstrual pains, for which the Pill happened to be the best available treatment, then what sort of parent would consent to put his underage daughter on the Pill? Why would he want that?
In each constituency in 2024, there should be one candidate, of any party or none, who subscribed to this and this. The complete list of those candidates would appear here, and anywhere else that would publish it. If I could raise enough money to be a viable candidate, then I would contest the seat where the most people had offered to sign my nomination papers. Please give generously.
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