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Because she wanted to reduce the maximum age at which an unborn child can be killed from 24 weeks to 21 weeks.

LONDON, November 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A British Member of Parliament needed to call upon security after abortion activists sent her death threats for proposing to reduce the legal age for abortion from 24 to 21 weeks according to the Bedford News.

“My staff have been told they will burn in hell, my home has been besieged by anonymous telephone calls, extremist groups have sent out inflammatory messages to their members,” said Conservative MP Nadine Dorries of Mid Bedfordshire. “It got so bad that we had to alert House of Commons security and my constituency police.”

However, the threats have only served to harden Nadine Dorries’ conviction to push for changes in the United Kingdom’s abortion law.

“Why such extremists think this kind of behaviour will deter me I have no idea. If anything it reinforces my conviction to carry on,” said Mrs. Dorries. “We were not intimidated by the extremists and continue to move forward with the campaign which I have called ‘Abortion Rights and Wrongs - the case for reform of abortion law’.”

Sad, but then again the pro-life crowd has its nuts too.

While we’re on the subject of abortion, though, earlier today I was watching a movie where one of the characters became a widow when his wife died.  At one point in the movie, the character learns that not only did his wife die but she died while about 6 weeks pregnant.  As you might imagine, the character lost it when he learned this.  Spiraled down into new emotional lows.  It was clear, from the way the story was being told on the screen, that we viewers were supposed to emphasize with this character even more now that we knew that he not only lost a wife but a child as well.

Which made me wonder, for someone who is pro-abortion (as big majority of the writers, producers, directors and actors in this movie undoubtedly are) why should it a woman who dies while pregnant be any more sad than a woman who died while not pregnant?  After all, according to these people who support abortion the only thing that woman has inside her is a clump of cells.  No sense getting emotional over that, right?

Well, I certainly don’t agree with that.  I think most of us recognize that if a woman dies while pregnant there is additional tragedy involved.  I’m sure that any one of us hearing that a female friend or relative had died would be additionally traumatized by the fact that she was also pregnant.  So shouldn’t that tell us something about abortion?  Why do we morn unborn children when they die in miscarriages or die when their mothers die, but aren’t supposed to mourn them when they die in abortions?

It seems to me that the only difference between a child who dies in the womb of a miscarriage or some sort of tragedy befalling the mother and a child who dies because of an abortion is the fact that aborted babies aren’t wanted.  And if that’s the only excuse we have for mourning one and not the other, it’s a pretty sad commentary on why we accept abortion as an ethical, legal practice.