Nadine Dorries claims backing for her campaign but it’s not so simple
Yesterday, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries posted a press release on her blog, claiming that the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) backed the amendment that she and Frank Field MP have put forward.
The amendment calls for ‘independent’ abortion counselling for women who want an abortion, with the aim of excluding respected organisations such as BPAS and others, and is tacked to the contentious Health and Social Care Bill.
She wrote:
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Why Nadine Dorries is indeed pushing abstinence-only education
There is some considerable – and I might also say deliberately contrived – confusion as to the question of whether tory MP Nadine Dorries’ abstinence bill amounts to the promotion of abstinence-only sex education.
Dorries and her supporters claim that she isn’t pushing abstinence-only sex education and, of course, use this claim to deflect criticism based on the well-documented evidence of the abject failure of abstinence-only programmes in the United States.
To understand why, we need first to be clear about what is actually included in the National Curriculum under sex education as a mandatory element – and everything we need to know is to be found in the Science curriculum.
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Lesson for Dorries: report says abstinence education doesn’t work
The American Foundation for AIDS Research published a new issue briefing in 2007, which fully deserves to be widely circulated.
It assesses the effectiveness of abstinence-only sex education programmes for HIV prevention amongst young people.
The briefing pulls together the evidence from a wide range of published studies covering the outcomes of abstinence-only programmes in both the US and internationally and arrives at an unsurprising but damning conclusion:
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The TaxPayers Alliance and their disingenuous polling
Today, the ‘Tax Payers’ Alliance’ are touting a new opinion poll which, so they claim, ‘reveals that the public support billions in spending cuts to foreign aid, high speed rail, trade union funding and a Green Investment bank’.
The poll, itself, is pretty much standard TPA fare – a stream of questions asking whether the public would support cutting expenditure on thing that appear to be pretty expensive but about which the majority of the public know and understand far too little to make anything that remote resembles an informed choice.
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Daily Mail threatens blogger with libel over 2-year old post
Kevin Arscott of the ‘Angry Mob‘ blog is a reasonably well-known figure in the British blogosphere, one of several bloggers who specialise in tracking and exposing some of the worst excesses of tabloid and mid-market newspapers.
This morning, a bit of a kerfuffle has broken out on Twitter after Kevin received a nastygram from the Daily Mail’s lawyers threatening him with a libel action if he didn’t remove a two-year old post from his blog.
Kevin took down his post, but it can still be read via Google’s cache.
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Could the #superinjunction lead to Twitter being banned in the UK?
This evening’s news that a professional sportsman who may or may not be the person known as ‘CTB’ has filed legal proceedings against Twitter and ‘persons unknown’ appears to have prompted a degree of bemusement.
And nowhere more so than over at Heresy Corner, where the Heresiarch has rather uncharacteristically succeeded in massively over-analysing the situation…
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Does the law see ‘rape as rape’?
Are some rapes more serious than others? So far as the law is concerned, the answer is “Yes”.
What the law recognises is that the specific circumstances in which a rape take place may give rise to a number of aggravating factors and/or mitigating factors that must necessarily be taken into account when handing down a sentence following a successful conviction.
Use of extreme violence – i.e. beating the victim to a pulp in addition to raping them – multiple/repeat victimization and/or the existence of prior convictions for rape are treated as aggravating factors and result in a much longer sentence.
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Abstinence makes Nadine Dorries’ brain go softer
I was originally going to fisk the speech Nadine Dorries gave in introducing her ten minute rule bill on the mandatory teaching of abstinence to 13-16 year old girls.
But much of what needs to be said can be readily covered using her pseudo-blog post on the same subject, which makes two key claims without any evidence whatsoever.
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Leaked document: How far does Nadine Dorries want to restrict abortion rights?
A document obtained by myself indicates that Conservative MP Nadine Dorries’ recently launched Right to Know campaign could be part of long-term strategy to secure the complete prohibition of abortion in the UK on any grounds.
Dorries recently put forward two abortion-related amendments to the Government’s Health and Social Care Bill.
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Tory MP Nadine Dorries’ aide quits; blames blogger for “smears”
Only a little over a week ago, blogger Tim Ireland published two blog posts raising legitimate questions about Dorries’ financial relationship with Lynn Elson and her company, Marketing Management (Midlands) Ltd.
Both articles did little more than aggregate information from public sources. Now Elson has started putting out allegations of harassment against Tim and calling it “spiteful and fabricated tittle-tattle”, while saying nothing of the issues involved.
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