Anyone still doubting whether slopes are in fact slippery either hasn’t been for a walk around Colley Hill in February or has failed to notice the response this week to a 44-year-old woman jailed for taking abortion pills to kill her unborn baby at 32-34 weeks pregnant.  The proverbial camel’s nose went under the tent in 1967 and it’s a one piece camel trying to get in. But will we let it? 

As Catholics we hold that life begins at conception.  The Catholic Church uses the term pre-eminence to describe the highest form of moral truth in a hierarchy of moral truths.  It is a term used exclusively for the horror of abortion. Catholics who claim to be pro-life but who want abortion to be legal under the current stipulations are especially heinous since they take the approach of being personally convinced that there is an innocent person hiding behind a tree, but seek not to stop others shooting towards it anyway.