A moral and political disjunction

Yesterday saw the release of the report into the deaths of 201 babies and nine mothers, plus neo-natal damage to both mothers and babies over a number of years in the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Trust maternity services. One factor appears to have been an obsession with natural birth as opposed to caesarian section - as someone who entered this world by a caesarian I feel I have a certain interest here. Ministers and MPs responded quickly to the report by promising reform and change. There is more about this report and the background at Shrewsbury maternity scandal: Police probe 600 cases of care

Yesterday evening a majority in the House of Commons voted to accept a House of Lords amendment to the Health Bill going through Parliament to retain the “do it at home” provision for abortion introduced during lockdown, and which the government* wished to stop. MPs argued this was all for the best of various groups of women.

Am I the only person to see a serious moral and political disjunction here? I doubt if I am.

* We know the Prime Minister’s view on abortion - he is only against having to pay for one personally.