Breeding Back Better

Thanks, no doubt, to the principled Catholic piety at its head, Her Majesty's Government intends curtailing women's rights from the autumn. The right to terminate pregnancies on their own will be removed in six months, when England will revert to the pre-pandemic system requiring a visit to a clinician. As one would expect from the National Johnson, whose tenure as mayor of London was nearly as famous for closing women's shelters as it was for polluting children to death, this policy will punish abuse victims and the poor, as well as providing another amusing addition to the pressure on the NHS. Even though there's a war on and a shortage of cheap native workers, the Labour administration in Wales has announced its intention to continue the present system; although it remains as yet unclear whether the party leadership will repay this treason by purging only the Welsh health ministry or the entire provincial government.