Church bells rang out across the wolds and dales of England’s green and pleasant land last week as it became lawful for a woman to behead a nine-month-old baby in her womb. It might surprise – yes, and even hearten you – to learn that Ireland is actually ahead of England in such Herodian matters, though this might just be a question of the Dail’s inattention to fine detail rather than to intentional, Hibernian infanticide.
However it happened, we have managed to be more “liberal” than England, if only by a short neck, which is nonetheless long enough for a skilful wielder of the tete-tire to set about her job with a clear legal conscience. The tete-tire, I should tell you, is one of the many handy devices available to abortionists as they ply their merry trade. The term is French, presumably to hide its real purpose, namely pulling the head clean off the torso. Does the baby squeal when this is being done? Unlikely somehow, not having any air in its lungs, well not at that moment anyway, but we do know that babies feel pain.
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