Abortion law plans lack basic decency
‘FOR the many, not the few” no longer applies to the unwanted pre-born.
Labour can make all sorts of promises but their proposal to introduce abortion, on-demand, for any reason, up to birth puts them beyond the pale of human decency.
Full decriminalisation of abortion involves repealing sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act along with the Infant Life Preservation Act. The Abortion Act 1967, sets out exceptions to this underlying legislation which last year allowed for nearly 250,000 abortions to take place in the UK.
Without this underlying legislation, the Abortion Act would become redundant. This change in law would scrap the current 24-week time limit for abortion – and abortion would be available on-demand, for any reason, up to birth. This would include gender selection. The upper time limit would be completely abolished.
This would be the most extreme abortion law in the world. The change would position the UK drastically away from the European Union, where the most common abortion time limit among EU countries is 12 weeks.
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The SNP keep stating they want an independent Scotland but fail to say how, when Scotland has a total population of approximately 5m, they would fund their plans.
They have just said that the NHS in Scotland needs a large cash injection from Westminster.
Recently their MPs, when they did not get their own way, went crying twice, to the highest Scottish court and won, and then when they were not invited by the BBC to take part in the debate between the leaders of the Labour and Conservative parties went to the UK courts and lost, behaved like spoilt children.
If Scotland became independent they have said they would take Scotland into the EU. What they have not considered is that to join the EU a country spends 10 years in negotiations first and has to agree to comply with all the EU regulations and now must also accept to have the Euro as their currency, in addition to paying a fixed amount each year into the EU budget. The SNP has also failed to consider that if they became independent they would lose all the Westminster government offices currently based in Scotland putting several thousand people out of work, and losing that revenue. The military bases would also close with thousands more losing their jobs alongside the major businesses who have stated they would relocate if Scotland became independent.
Just how does the SNP propose to fund all the areas that they now fund thanks to the monies they receive from Westminster? This is just a pipe dream of Nicola Sturgeon, to become the first president of an independent Scotland who would not be able to survive economically.
R Knight via email
THE recent terror attack in London shows just how far out of touch people like Yvette Cooper are.
She goes on about helping terrorists when they get out of prison in such schemes like the de-radicalisation pipe dream.
Usman Khan, the known terrorist who perpetrated last week’s attack on London Bridge, asked his lawyer about getting on to a de-radicalisation course.
Nothing transpired of course, and the police and probation service allowed him to twice travel to London, once on a scouting mission, the other to murder innocent civilians.
Terrorists here or ones coming back from Isis should be locked up for the rest of their lives. They don’t want to change, and the sooner the Yvette Coopers of the world realise this, the safer UK citizens will be.
Richard Low Twechar