The problem with "giving women all their options" is that it is difficult to do without seeming to apply pressure for one or the other. It has to be done, admittedly. Advisors will usually be medical professionals with an air of authority about them, with their own opinions, that vulnerable young women may find overwhelming, and pressure from family may already have been applied. On top of that, obliging women to wait for advice (which you can bet your life they'll have to) as to their options when time may be of the essence is, basically, an obstacle. As for private clinics, etc., well two things. First, I haven't heard any evidence of their being abortion-happy, and second, why not argue for the removal of any profit motive apropos of the provision of abortion services? My view is that abortions should be carried out by the NHS free of charge.

I won't argue against making the present system more humane and less stigmatising, of course not, and I acknowledge that, even in better times of low abortion numbers, such services will still be needed. But, to me, you are simply arguing for tweaking what we already have, when what I was hoping we would talk about is how we can work towards a situation in which a young woman turning up with an unwanted pregnancy has become a rarity. So far, everything we've tried seems to have failed.