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Do You Agree With Rees-Mogg That Abortion Even After A Woman Has Been Raped Is Morally Indefensible?
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I can understand why he believes this as he was brought up as a strict Catholic ("life is life"), but I can't agree with him - even the morning after pill would be a no no to him.
How do you feel?
I can understand why he believes this as he was brought up as a strict Catholic ("life is life"), but I can't agree with him - even the morning after pill would be a no no to him.
How do you feel?
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I believe that the only person who should make a decision on an abortion is the woman who is or is not going to undertake it.
Anything else is personal morality, which cannot be placed on another person.
I respect Mr Rees-Mogg's right to hold his views, but I cannot agree with him.
My moral code is based on what I am able to live with comfortably - I would feel very unhappy having that code chosen for me by complete strangers - especially if those strangers occupied such a deeply immoral organisation as the Catholic church.
Anything else is personal morality, which cannot be placed on another person.
I respect Mr Rees-Mogg's right to hold his views, but I cannot agree with him.
My moral code is based on what I am able to live with comfortably - I would feel very unhappy having that code chosen for me by complete strangers - especially if those strangers occupied such a deeply immoral organisation as the Catholic church.
He's entitled to his opinion as is everyone but, considering his position, he would be better keeping it to himself, however, politicians get forced into corners by scurrilous reporters looking for a story. Abortion is not illegal in the UK , I believe each case requires scrutiny, I'm opposed to it being used as a form of contraception.
"Just because a person has a particular view on abortion, does not mean that he would not make a good Prime Minister, however some would wish to turn it into a political issue."
No need to turn it into a political issue, it already is one.
To be fair, JRM has referred to the 1967 Abortion Act as "the Law of the Land", so perhaps he has no intentions of overturning it or trying to, but this particular opinion is symptomatic of a broader issue -- that he's a devout Catholic, and I don't particularly fancy having a devout Catholic as PM.
No need to turn it into a political issue, it already is one.
To be fair, JRM has referred to the 1967 Abortion Act as "the Law of the Land", so perhaps he has no intentions of overturning it or trying to, but this particular opinion is symptomatic of a broader issue -- that he's a devout Catholic, and I don't particularly fancy having a devout Catholic as PM.
//politicians get forced into corners by scurrilous reporters looking for a story//
That is the point of a journalist. For once I'm grateful to the media, it is worth us knowing that a potential Tory leader thinks this.
Also, I think most sensible people are opposed to abortion being used as a form of birth control - but he specifically said he would not allow it even in instances of rape or incest.
That is the point of a journalist. For once I'm grateful to the media, it is worth us knowing that a potential Tory leader thinks this.
Also, I think most sensible people are opposed to abortion being used as a form of birth control - but he specifically said he would not allow it even in instances of rape or incest.
PM is de facto head of the executive - they appoint secretary of health and the rest of the cabinet, who manage the enactment of UK law and policy. Obviously there are more factors at play than a given PM's personal views (such as managing loyalty, balancing party factions etc) but it's hardly insignificant.
"Also, I think most sensible people are opposed to abortion being used as a form of birth control - but he specifically said he would not allow it even in instances of rape or incest."
The current law allows abortion in the case of "grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman". One could argue, quite legitimately, that being obliged to become a mother for the rest of her, or the child's life, against her will, or being obliged to carry a child to term and give it up for adoption, would both constitute such a grave injury to mental health.
I agree that falling pregnant without having taken sufficient precautions is irresponsible, but I don't agree that, having done so, abortion should be proscribed. Mother, child (and father) shouldn't have to pay over a lifetime for the mistakes of one night.
Also I agree that, at the end of the day, it's up to the woman (from which, anyway, it follows that abortion in the case of an unplanned pregnancy ought to be a woman's right, if she so chooses). In a loving consensual couple I'd hope that the woman might wish to involve the father in the decision but it would still be her choice.
The current law allows abortion in the case of "grave permanent injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant woman". One could argue, quite legitimately, that being obliged to become a mother for the rest of her, or the child's life, against her will, or being obliged to carry a child to term and give it up for adoption, would both constitute such a grave injury to mental health.
I agree that falling pregnant without having taken sufficient precautions is irresponsible, but I don't agree that, having done so, abortion should be proscribed. Mother, child (and father) shouldn't have to pay over a lifetime for the mistakes of one night.
Also I agree that, at the end of the day, it's up to the woman (from which, anyway, it follows that abortion in the case of an unplanned pregnancy ought to be a woman's right, if she so chooses). In a loving consensual couple I'd hope that the woman might wish to involve the father in the decision but it would still be her choice.
Also - the religious aspect of this actually makes him far more likely to attempt to change the law of the land if given the power to propose government legislation (or, failing that, to otherwise frustrate the law of the land with the other means a PM has at their disposal). If he really does believe that conception begins at life, he would have a cosmic moral imperative to put a stop to abortion (and gay marriage) insofar as he could.
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