I had a feeling that most abortions were carried out under the NHS. Good that there's no waiting list as such. The last thing we need are Texas-style obstacles, as Monbiot describes. There will often be a very short period of time between a girl discovering that she's pregnant and the time limit, especially as sex education in this country is so patchy and, frankly, so poor. A vacuum for the religious and moral brigade to waltz into. Scandalous it is, and I have a feeling that posters from other countries might tell us the same thing. Naturally, the poorest people are the worst off in every regard when it comes to this issue. So much for convenience abortions for career enhancement purposes, eh. Agreed that our personal takes are not the most relevant. As a bloke posting about this, I'm painfully aware of this and am wanting to steer clear of all those aspects that just wind people up and cause the moralisers like akenaton to crawl out of the woodwork. What would be great would be to see free abortion for all who want it but the workers at the clinics twiddling their thumbs because there was hardly any work. We could start with what happens, or doesn't happen, in our schools...