Zoe Williams of the Guardian is fed up with all this nonsense:

…there is no ethical value to this mawkish fetishisation of the foetus. The time limit "debate" is not a debate – it doesn’t have the transparency or frankness to warrant the name. To anyone who wants to peddle an anti-abortion position, well, bring it on – let’s have that conversation, openly. But let’s stop asking questions about time limits, and stop answering them.

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