Hello Nadine,

I'm a pro-abortion journalist who has been writing about a pro-abortion march that is due to take place in London in a few weeks' time.

A considerable number of readers of my website have been concerned to note that you plan to introduce another Termination of Pregnancy Bill in 23 March as per this story. I decided to ask you if you could tell us why you've decided to introduce this bill again, after it was defeated last year, and what effect you expect it to have on women's health if it is passed.

I was also wondering if you could tell me why you think it's appropriate to take this step, and why, by implication, you believe that women can't be trusted to utilise the existing legislation appropriately. The pro-abortion group I have been writing about wants existing criteria for abortion to be relaxed: quite a few people now believe women are sophisticated enough to operate within such an adult scenario.

You'll appreciate that this is an extremely important issue for women. Many of us are already concerned that our right to free and legal abortion is at risk in an era where neo-conservative and conservative religious thinkers play a bigger role in policymaking than most of us envisaged at this point in history.

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