A Modest Proposal

According to this horrifying article from today’s Telegraph, three babies are being killed every day in the UK because they have been diagnosed with Down’s Syndrome.
Horrid.
But perhaps the most shocking statement in the whole article was this:
However, doctors say that women must make the decision according to their circumstances, and that some may [...]

Against human rights

I have always been uneasy with the language of human rights. It seems to me to put the focus entirely and selfishly on the individual: my rights which I must assert. I would much rather that we spoke about responsibilities (which was, I think, probably closer to the intention behind the Universal Declaration, [...]

Abortion and hypocrisy

In conversation with a pregnant friend who was talking about the disapproving looks she gets when she has a cup of coffee, it did strike me that there is an extraordinary hypocrisy in our society.
When a woman who is pregnant decides to kill her baby, that is held to be her choice. It is [...]