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The Times - Bedroom abortions
The popularity of early medical abortion should prompt soul-searching

Last year 10,000 women ended their pregnancies in their own homes, using the abortion pill known as EMA (early medical abortion) that was introduced only in 2000. …

A decision to terminate a pregnancy is always sad. It involves loss, pain and remorse and should never be undertaken lightly or casually. But if a woman is to have an early abortion, it should be as straightforward and painless as possible. For all its vaunted medical advance, EMA is no easy procedure: the miscarriage can lead to heavy bleeding and severe cramps. All women should be given counselling, before and after taking the pills — and there should be no assumption that this has become so routine that counselling can be cut back. The NHS also uses EMA, but generally keeps women in a clinic for the miscarriage — a sensible safeguard that ought to ensure better access to proper counselling.

You know, if those words were uttered on this side the the Atlantic you’d have about a hundred screaming women wielding picket signs lining up outside your door.

Parliament has repeatedly reaffirmed a woman’s right to choose.

That might have something to do with it.