"Say something sane, please!"
What we seem to be getting here from Ake and his dinosaurs is a ramble down memory lane back to the good old days when women knew their place as baby makers - if the weren't in the kitchen preparing meals, that is.
A telling phrase in his latest offering "terminate a pregnancy for perhaps career reasons" does not take into consideration all the other reasons for unplanned and unwelcome pregnancies; underage experimentation, contraception failure, peer pressure or ignorance, religious and opposition to sex education, culturally built-in mysogony and sexism, the constant presentation of women as 'available' in our tabloid press and on our screens, or simply "that's what is expected of a woman"...... and one of the great unmentionables, rape within marriage.
I was astounded to learn that rape within marriage did not exist as a crime in Britain until 1991.
We might have travelled a fair distance in the last few decades, but we've still got a long way to go.
Jim Carroll