Why She Did It

Wendy Davis came to wide public notice in June last year, when she talked out a bill which would have placed severe restrictions on abortion rights. Now, as Democratic candidate for governor of the Christian state of Texas, she has provided some explanation for this aberrant behaviour, revealing that she herself took advantage of the state's liberal laws on baby-killing on two occasions. One of the pregnancies was ectopic, which means that God has somehow managed to allow the precious cargo to metastasise outside the womb, presumably so that He can claim the innocent's soul all the sooner, and possibly the mother's as well. The other foetus had been divinely gifted with a brain defect that would have made the child blind, deaf and in a permanently vegetative state, which would hardly make for a viable worker-consumer anywhere, except possibly the House of Lords. At the time of her first abortion, Davis had not yet entered politics and was already a mother of two, though it is unclear how far this will redeem her in the eyes of those Texans whose invisible friend has such famously strong views on the matter.