MPs Have Lost Their Morals & Ethics on Abortion & IVF

I think it is now official. Our MPs on both sides of the house are stark raving mad and wholly removed from the society the represent. This has been confirmed by the results of voting on the various life topics covered by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill which has gone through Parliament this week.

I was surprised when they allowed human/animal stem cell research. This was always a contentious subject with arguments fully entrenched in religion. I’m not sure that the religious argument was ever the strongest but it was always well supported.

I was shocked that the term for abortion remained the same despite very strong public support to the contrary. The cause for shortening the term has been strengthened over the years by numerous examples of babies at 20-24 weeks being born and surviving. There appears to be strong evidence that the foetus begins to feel at this stage of the pregnancy and has developed enough for viability. We are totally out of touch with the rest of Europe on this. We are in fact the abortion capital of Europe with somewhere in the region of 200k abortions a month. People in fact travel to the UK because they cannot get an abortion in their home countries. It strikes me as being wrong that we are pouring resources into abortion instead of general health care or the promotion and education of responsibility. If abortion was a bit harder to procure then perhaps kids would be a little smarter about how they spent their evenings and weekends. The government it seems must have a reason for ignoring public opinion on this one but what that reason is precisely is a mystery to me at the moment.

What has floored me though is the decision of MPs to remove the need of a male role model from IVF treatment. Words cannot begin to explain my anger on this decision. As far as I am concerned now, the government have officially lost the plot. On the one hand they are beginning to accept that it is the breakdown of the family in modern society that is to blame for the epidemic of anti-social behaviour that grips us today. Experts galore have been saying for years now that a fully functioning family, which means a mother and a father is vital to promote natural values and healthy development of children. What is the point of paying these experts to advise our government if the government is going to ignore them wholly and allow presumably single women of lesbian couples to pursue IVF without any form of male influence other that the sperm needed for the creation of life. As a man I think this is abhorrent. As a society this is precisely the type of thing we should be looking to put an end to yet here are our politicians saying that more children should be brought into this world without natural and correct biological influences in their lives; a matriarch and a patriarch. I suspect that in tune with pretty much all of this governments decisions, this comes down to money in some way shape or form and the fact that there are probably supporters somewhere who have been able to use their influence. Either that of someone told Gordon that it would be good for the economy and/or his image if he put his weight behind this vote.

I hope that the Conservatives who opposed this incredible concession will revisit this subject as soon as possible when they come into power after the next election.