Contrasting Deaths

The death of Lynda Bellingham was a real shock even though, through her dignified publicising of her cancer, we all knew that she was terminally ill. I am just so sad that she didn't get what she so desperately wanted, a last Christmas with her family. We can only pray that she is now at peace.

Like millions I grew up with Lynda Bellingham making the world's best gravy. I love my mum and wouldn't swap her for the world, but when I was a kid if I had to choose another mum it would have been Lynda Bellingham. Even away from the Oxo adverts she came over as a thoroughly good, decent human being. The world needs more of them, not less.

In 1970 I lost my grandad. He took his own life within weeks of my gran dying. For a long time I had extremely negative feelings for what he had put us all through so soon after overcoming the grief of my gran dying. A pain felt even more by my mum and her sister and brother.

After time I came to love and respect my granddad even more than I had when he was alive. As I matured I understood that pain and loss had driven him to do what he had done. He had the guts to do it and not expect anybody else to help him or to give their permission. He took the ultimate responsibility, that of choosing when to die.

By contrast I read today of 86 year old Jean Davies who took four weeks to starve herself to death. Even after giving up water as well as food it took her two weeks to die. It sounded slightly odd to me.

Lo and behold for many years Jean Davies had been a campaigner for 'assisted suicide'. So what terrible illness led to Jean Davies's suicide? She had a lot of ailments, was on a lot of tablets and had started to faint sometimes. In other words she was 'knocking on a bit'.

It seems that she was terrified of fainting in her garden, dying and putting her family through the trauma of finding her dead. So instead she chose to have her family witness her lingering, one month indignity of starving to death.

Well she certainly made me even more convinced that euthanasia is wrong and if legalised, would be every bit as abused as the abortion laws are. We now have abortion on demand. Legalise euthanasia and oldies will soon be put down to free up the spare room or the granny flat. Well I want neither abortion nor euthanasia in my name and will continue to campaign against both. It seems the liberal left only oppose the death of the guilty by campaigning constantly against capital punishment. But they are happy to slaughter the innocent be they young or old.

I think the world became slightly the poorer for losing Lynda Bellingham and Johnny Hardy. I hope I don't sound uncharitable, but I can't say the same about the death of Jean Davies.

Abortion-The Silent Holocaust

Since 1967 millions of unborn babies have been slaughtered in abortion clinics in the UK. Many of us, especially those with a disability, should thank God every day that we were conceived before the 1967 Abortion Act. Having said that my parents are far too humane to have ever considered abortion, they respect human life.

The negative effects of years of pinko liberal policies are all around us. Despite undeniable evidence that they are misguided at best, and that their policies have led to social and moral decay, they continue in their smug arrogance that they know best. Of course the more their policies wreak havoc the more jobs they create in social services departments, counselling, therapy organisations and other refuges for the politically correct to make a living from the mess they have created. More teenage pregnancies? Start telling even younger children about the joys of sex! More drunks to counsel and preach at about the dangers of drink? Let's liberalise the licensing laws!

The evil of abortion has been with us for decades now and millions of unborn children have been slaughtered. Apart from the clear moral repulsion of abortion, who knows that the man or woman who would have found the cure for cancer wasn't one of those? Would a great man like Stephen Hawking have survived if his illness could have been detected in the womb? Would Winston Churchill have survived if his speech impediment had been detected before birth and abortion had been an option? Does that sound extreme? Remember Joanna Jepson.

When you think it can't get any worse we now find out that doctors, in private clinics and an NHS hospital in Manchester, have been carrying out abortions if the baby is the 'wrong' sex! You can read about 'female infanticide' here.

If you would like information about the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children please visit here.

Babies As Accessories

As we in the west, possibly elsewhere in the world too, become ever more obsessed with wealth and the trinkets of wealth there is inevitably an impact on the way we treat humans. So called 'enlightened employment practices' have actually created something nearer to the Victorian workplace than we have seen in decades.

I know people whose employers threaten them with dismissal if they drink at lunchtime. A Friday lunchtime pint with colleagues used to be a great team building exercise, but no more. Internet access is severely restricted, but they still have access to lawbooks and other work manuals and reference books on the shelves. Why do employers need to know whether you are gay or heterosexual? Why do they need to know your religion? Why in Northern Ireland is it illegal not to state your religion on a job application? Why do employers need to know if we are married or not? Why do they need to know whether you regard yourself as having a disability?

But more worrying is the way we see babies and very young people. There has been much debate in the media this week about social services departments who will not place black babies for adoption with white couples. We all know that in an ideal world parents would be able to adopt a baby that as nearly resembles a child the couple might produce naturally as possible. But it isn't an ideal world, so surely the most important thing is that babies are adopted by whoever can give them the love and attention they need rather than leaving them in care maybe for years and years.

But no, social workers claim that placing black babies with white families would be confusing for the child. Well then, how bloody  confused will the children of gay parents be when they get to school to find that all the other kids have mummy and daddy while they have daddy and daddy or mummy and mummy?

Then we have the reintroduction of slavery, as long you have lots of cash and are preferably a celebrity. Madonna's bought a little slave and now Elton John, perhaps bored with all his other vulger trinkets, has also bought a little slave. Because I see no difference between buying a baby and buying somebody older to work for you, both involve buying human beings for money, and both are wrong, both are slavery.

Then we have the obscenity of abortion with millions of unborn babies being slaughtered every year. But in these days of ever more effective contraception why are so many young girls getting pregnant and using abortion as a form of contraception? Maybe because the authorities insist on teaching sex education to younger and younger children without properly teaching of the dangers and the responsibilities. So the more unwanted teenage pregnancies we have, the younger the 'progressives' start teaching kids about sex and so the cycle goes on. So the UK now has the highest rate of unwantd teen pregnancies in Europe, and abortion is just another form of contraception.

If you judge a civilisation by the way it treats its babies I fear that our civilisation doesn't stand up to close scrutiny.

Youth Defence

For as long as I can remember I've been a member and supporter of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.  The right to life, from conception, is the most fundamental human right and a country that fails to protect that right, lacks credibility when it speaks about any other human rights.

Sadly there are continuing attempts to force Ireland to legalise abortion, including pressure from the European Union. I was really heartened  then to find the campaigning organisation Youth Defence. Youth Defence is a youth organisation campaigning to preserve the right to life in Ireland. Below are their aims:

It's simple really, our aim is to keep Ireland abortion-free. Educating people, helping mothers, lobbying, campaigning; all our objectives are undertaken with that aim.


We began protecting life in February of 1992 when seven young people came together in Dublin to organise against abortion.


It happened mostly because at that time, the X case posed a very real threat to the unborn child. Pro-abortion opportunists, who are always only too happy to jump on cases like this to push their agenda, were shouting for abortion as an immediate priority. If it was not legislated for before it was too late, babies would be born!


The media, who, lets face it, have a little of a leaning in that direction anyway, lapped up the drama.


There was pretty much a strained silence from the rest of the country who, even if they are totally passive about it, are pro-life. Their silence was sold as consent. If you were living in say, Paris, and got the Irish Independent every morning, you would think that the country was bristling with pro-abortion multitudes who were just on the verge of a rebellion to overthrow a backward and out of touch junta.

So, we said "hold it there for one second". It was time for young people to make their voices heard against abortion.

The group are holding a pro-life conference, Viva la Vida! , in Dublin early in November. I wish them well for their conference and in their continuing campaign.

Three Good Ones In Westminster

When Bob Spink came to UKIP I was pleased, especially because of his principled stand on abortion. I was disappointed, to say the least, when he voted for 42 day internment but he has redeemed himself with this piece in the Telegraph condemning the proposed further liberalisation of the abortion laws.

Also to be commended for her stand is Nadine Dorries. It's good to know there are still one or two people in Westminster with principle.

And for the hat-trick, hats off to Baroness Manningham Buller. The former MI5 chief blew the lid off the government's pretence that the 'intelligence community' supported 42 day internment. Hats off to her and you can read all about it, and see a video of her speech here.

I don't think I've ever praised three politicos, well two MPs and a Baroness, in one post before.