News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
We've gone from pulling out all the stops during Covid to try to save the frail to contemplating euthanasia, where we'll bump them off. Shouldn't we at least have a vote on it, asks Nick Rendell.
Adam Smith-Connor, a British Army veteran, was fined for praying silently outside a Birmingham abortion clinic. He's refused to pay and now the case is going to court.
Whatever you think of abortion, the authoritarian way the WHO forces it on member states, with no respect for their independence or democratic self-governance, should ring alarm bells.
Pro-life campaigner Lois McLatchie wasn't expecting SNP MP Alison Thewliss to react the way she did after she appeared on BBC Scotland: she labelled her an 'extremist' and called for her to be banned from the airwaves.
Even those who support abortion should recognise that Roe v Wade was a poor legal decision and the US Supreme Court would be right to take the matter away from unelected judges and return it to the democratic process.
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