We’re used to legal ignorance from British TERFS but until now it has solely been around trans people. This level of terrifying ignorance has now seeped into the Abortion Act, which never made abortion a right or even legal, it only provided limited immunity from prosecution. https://twitter.com/jayneeegerton/status/1335178213593501697

In England, Wales and Scotland there is no “right” to abortion, a woman can only be made immune to prosecution, with permission from two doctors, it’s a precarious arrangement, a loophole not a right.

Ironically, the 1967 Abortion Act, like the GRA, was ground breaking at the time but, like the GRA, it’s no longer fit for purpose, neither woman experiencing crisis pregnancies, nor trans people should have to seek permission from doctors to allow them bodily autonomy.

This week’s attack on Gillick Competence, isn’t an attack on the Abortion Act itself, it’s an attack on under 16s being able to give consent to their own health care, being supplied with contraception and abortion.

However, legislation is a bit like a game of Jenga, when you start pulling at the foundations, it’s becomes impossible to sustain the integrity of the structure. When you pay for Christian Fundamentalist lawyers to pull out those blocks, you can’t be surprised at the collapse.

Depending on who you ask, how you ask and the way in which you define “regret”, abortion has a regret rate of between 1-5%. I feel as sympathetic as it’s possible to feel for those women but they can’t be use to set a legal precedent to control other women.

Please donate what you can to fight this. Trans rights are human rights and some of them are the jenga peices that the right of the rest of us are supported by. https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/transgender-lives/