Women's Fightback: Anti-choice MP becomes Women’s Minister
Maria Caulfield, a Tory MP who supported cutting the abortion time limit and voted against legalising abortion in Northern Ireland, has been named as the minister for women. Caulfield, the MP for Lewes, was previously a member of parliamentary “pro-life” group, stating that she wants to be a “voice for the unborn child”. In voting against buffer zones around abortion clinics she explained those accused of harassing women wishing to access abortion services may in fact be trying to “comfort” people. “For me, the definition of what’s harassment is open to interpretation. That’s my concern —...