British Conservatives Support Reducing Abortion Availability

The New York Times: British Conservatives Play the Abortion Card, by Amelia Gentleman:

LONDON — With hindsight, perhaps the most surprising thing is how long abortion has been off the political agenda in Britain. An intensely divisive political issue elsewhere, the subject rarely makes the front pages here.

All that changed this month, as a series of senior Conservative members of Parliament, from the prime minister down, indicated that they supported reducing the period in which abortions are permitted. . . .