Rather queasy article by Christina Odone in The Guardian. Odone has the Julie Burchill factor for me (without the laffs though), in that sometimes I think she's great, although often she irritates me, especially when her Catholicism is given free reign. This is one of the irritating articles.

She's suggesting that the "Pro-lifers" cause is receiving a boost as a result as the rise in infertility-

"For the 45,000 British couples who seek fertility treatment annually, the 200,000 terminations that take place each year are a personal insult: how dare anyone discard something that you yearn for so greatly? The woman who opts to abort has what you can't have - unless you spend a lot of money (£2,000 per cycle), risk potential health hazards and ride an emotional rollercoaster - is getting rid of the very object for which you are undergoing a series of painful injections and undignified examinations. She takes an hour or so to free herself of the foetus; you take months, years of successive cycles, to (maybe) create a new life. The envy that the barren feel for the fertile boils over into hatred when the proof of that fertility is cast off like a pair of dirty knickers."

Mmm. See why I described it as queasy?

For the record, this infertile couple (who have gone through precisely that unpleasant fertility treatment, and have now been in the adoption system for two years) are not changing their opinion on a woman's right to choose, and I'm rather revolted by the suggestion that we might.

What is needed is not to make abortion harder, but to make adoption easier and encourage the adoption of young children and not just babies, because there are plenty out there, and plenty of childless adoptive couples. They're just not being put together.