Tag Archives: abortion

The biobag

Posted on August 3, 2020 by Quentin

We have all been reminded about the terrible things our ancestors – essentially like us – have done in history. The obvious example is the economic benefit we earned through the slave trade. We can immediately recognise its wickedness today. … Continue reading →

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The evil of abortion

Posted on November 21, 2019 by Quentin

This week I want to consider an unsavoury subject: there has been much public discussion about the legalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland. It has frequently been extolled as an extension of human rights. And the converse is that those … Continue reading →

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Popular Abortion

Posted on June 27, 2019 by Quentin

One of the great changes in western society during our lifetimes has been the attitude towards abortion. In Rex v Bourne (1938) the conditions required for abortion to be legal because of the condition of the mother were laid out. … Continue reading →

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Abortion 2016

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Quentin

The Abortion Act 1967 was frankly a disaster. The most emotionally effective argument in its favour was the prevention of illegal abortions (the number of which was grossly overstated at the time). The exceptions allowed by the Act – the … Continue reading →

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Inoculate the young

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Quentin

Mr Justice Warby fired a shot across the bows in a High Court judgment in November when he said that schools should put secular humanism and other non-religious beliefs into the Religious Studies curriculum. This, unsurprisingly, caused a fuss. But … Continue reading →

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Sauce for the goose

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Quentin

I had taken the children out for a walk when my wife, left on her own, started to miscarry – at 10 weeks. Weak and haemorrhaging, she staggered to the bathroom and baptised our baby, whom one day she will … Continue reading →

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