A report from IPSA, the new MPs' expenses watchdog, describes the abusive reaction of politicians to the stricter regime.

A report from IPSA, the new MPs' expenses watchdog, describes the abusive and sometimes violent reaction of politicians to the stricter regime.

Several MPs have abused expenses watchdog staff, with one calling the new system an "abortion", official documents suggest.

I had a very useful chat with Abortion Rights campaign co-ordinator Louise Hutchins last week: the time fast approaches for the report stage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - and for fighting attendant dingbat anti-choice amendments to the Abortion Act. And there are plenty of them this time round, people - each more patronising

The American Psychological Association (APA) has released a comprehensive review of research that shows abortion does not undermine mental health. The APA is one of the most influential mental health bodies and the findings of this report ought to help undermine MPs efforts to restrict access to abortion. The Times article says: Anti-abortion MPs have tabled an amendment to the Human Fertilisation...

Sir Thomas Legg's report amounted to a stinging attack on hundreds of MPs who systematically ignored their own rules to milk a "deeply flawed" expenses system.

I tried to find a good snappy short excerpt from the following article, but couldn't so I've quoted a lot. The Times:Women do not put their mental health at risk by having an abortion, according to an authoritative study that will undermine the campaign to tighten the UK's abortion laws. A comprehensive review of research by the American Psychological Association (APA), one of the w...

THE Prime Minister today accepted "in full" the Kelly report on MPs' expenses, and promised swift action to reform the system.

Some of the activists here in the United States with me are much more pro-abortion than their American counterparts. Yesterday, however, I think their minds may have altered slightly when the fact that people can still have abortions in the eighth month of pregnancy was explained to them - and quite what partial birth abortion involves. If only anti-abortion campaigners stuck to this message initi...

To read some of the responses to my earlier comment on the MPs expenses scandal, you would think I had leapt to their defence. So let me repeat, the parliamentary expenses system is, indeed, corrupt and, like much else in our political system, needs to be reformed. My main point was that popular anger at the parlous state of our society in general is being displaced on to the issue of MPs expenses...