Crimes Against the Unborn

NHS South East London, which decides how to dole out treatments in six London boroughs, has apologised for its policy of denying IVF treatment to single women. The organisation's guidelines cited "Aristotle's principle of equality" to justify its family values, which specify that one person is not two and therefore a single parent lacks the worthiness of a couple, to say nothing of being a likely benefits claimant and burden on the taxpayer. Presumably the policy will now be revised so that single women can exercise their inalienable right of choice in adding yet more little maggots to the overflowing human barrel, and yanking children from oblivion into a world that, if we are optimistic enough to assume no global wars or pogroms, will very likely drown, starve or broil them before their thirtieth birthdays.