Spawning Malice

Advertisements by a pregnancy advice charity have been terminated by Transport for London on the grounds that they could bring the police into disrepute. The adverts request people to lobby their parliamentary expenses claimants in favour of civilising the country's Christian abortion laws, and feature plain and factual accounts of women investigated or prosecuted over the ending of their pregnancies. Although the charity points out that the campaign is quite devoid of the blood-spattered hysteria which characterises the pro-coathanger congregation, there is undeniably a clear implication that the Metropolitan Police may have been acting in accordance with the law. One can only imagine what seismic levels of culture shock might result if that were to get about.