@GardenGal247 @Lewis_Bollard How many pigs would exist, compared to now, if we stopped raising them as food?
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@Lewis_Bollard Thanks for sharing this story. Pigs are smarter than dogs. They deserve better treatment. This inhumane treatment has to stop! It begins with our eating habits. Just say no to pork! 🐷 💕
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This is a pig who spent years confined in a gestation crate. She was left behind when factory farms flooded in Iowa and then rescued by some volunteers.
The volunteers took her home and dug her a mud pit. She ignored it. They assumed years of confinement had extinguished her natural instincts.
Then they noticed her wandering into the woods on their property. They followed her — and found her rooting in a pile of dirt, digging her own mud pit.
The pork industry claims pigs adapt to confinement. They don't. Inside every gestation crate is an animal who still yearns to root, wallow, and just be a pig.
This is the tragedy of factory farming. We tried to reduce feeling animals to machines. We failed.
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@browser_things @gwpurnell What right that we have now would they be taking away?
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@gwpurnell How about the opponents who want to take peoples rights away write the 'safeguards' they are happy with then
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(Possibly) my last word on Liam McArthur's bill. If the sponsors saw themselves as compassionate, why didn't they embrace safeguards that would reduce the danger of wrongful medical deaths or coercion? Why didn't they care about making it the safest legislation of it's kind? /1
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@paulmasonnews @iamhamesh Since when was religious tolerance our way of life? Because it didn't used to be when Catholics and Protestants were burning each other. When was the change?
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Religious tolerance *is* our way of life. Badenoch is losing control of her front bench now 👇🏽
Nick Timothy MP@NJ_Timothy
I will not be silenced. Labour are only demonstrating that they cannot see right from wrong. They will not stand up for our way of life. But we will.
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@tcanham459 @iamhamesh Can the woman end the pregnancy at 34 weeks without being prosecuted? If so, that tweet doesn't seem very misleading
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This is completely misleading.
The only change is that women who have to go through the trauma of ending a pregnancy will no longer be prosecuted.
Because it doesn't serve anybody to incarcerate a grieving mother.
Anna Lulis@annamlulis
This is what a 34 week old baby looks like outside the womb. The UK just voted in favor of killing an unborn child at this age. For no reason, just because someone wants to. They call it “reproductive rights” because they refuse to call it what it is: murder.
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@Ella_M_Whelan @LambriniPapi You can be pro choice within reasonable bounds. It doesn't have to be absolute. I don't want us to be like America where it's seen as a conflict between absolute rights. We had a political settlement that's now been destabilised
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@LambriniPapi If you're pro choice then you're... pro choice. Otherwise you're 'pro some choices that I like'.
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This kind of frothing hatred for women's freedom is just so out of touch with public opinion on abortion. MPs with even the tiniest liberal bone in their body need to have some courage and come out and defend our bodily autonomy, because at the moment Westminster is sounding like a house full of loons.
James McMurdock MP@JMcMurdockMP
I dont think being overly emotional is particularly helpful when it comes to matters of the law but for the first time since becoming an MP I am genuinely sad about what parliament has done. I am sad because I know what the consequences will be. I am sad because I know nervous first time parents might give way to doubt and opt out of parenthood and how the reality of that means they'll be denied the greatest gift life will ever give them and instead inherit a life of monstrous guilt. I am sad because, now, healthy babies will be destroyed. I am really sorry that the UK has legalised full term abortion. For what it's worth, I voted NO. I am going to squeeze my children a little tighter and thank the universe a little more than normal this morning. You cannot become unpregnant. You just become the parent of a child you killed. That is the reality of life. We must face it. My babies.
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@MadelaineLucyH What was being decriminalised, then? Something that wouldn't ever happen anyway?
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You don’t get elective, on-demand abortion up to birth in the UK. Late-term cases are tightly restricted, require medical sign-off, and only happen in serious circumstances after lengthy legal and medical protocols. Pretending otherwise isn’t debate, it’s misinformation.
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@CPCS_UniKent @peterrhague Should women be removed from criminal law more generally, or only piece of criminal law?
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@peterrhague Removing women from the criminal law is not absurd at all. What England now needs though is a thorough review and debate along the lines of: gov.scot/publications/r…
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The UK has not had an abortion debate in most people’s lifetime. Elective abortions stopped at viability, medically necessary ones could be done later. Matter settled.
Now some lunatics have decided to open that can of worms by pushing an absurdly maximalist pro choice position.
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Absolutely delighted that last night Noble Lords stood up for what is right for women & defeated attempts to rollback their reproductive rights. They also secured pardons for all women who have police records from being investigated for this offence 🧵👇
theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
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@jakethepie @residentadviser What's the practical difference between decriminalising it and legalising it? They both mean the woman doesn't face any legal penalties.
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@residentadviser But this isn't about legalising abortion up to term, is it? It's about decriminalsing women who try to find ways (under duress/distress of various forms) to terminate a pregnancy late in its progress. Pregnancies can already legally be terminated late for medical reasons and ...
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Problem is that we’ve got so used to thinking of it is an issue exclusively of choice (for very, very understandable reasons) when in truth it is a balance of rights. And we know that the foetus is (to quote Christopher Hitchens) at very least “candidate member of human society”.
Ryan Shorthouse@RyanShorthouse
Decriminalising abortion from 24 weeks to birth is, I’m afraid, unnecessary and extreme. It disrupts the correct balance we had in law between the rights of the woman and the rights of the baby: which was abortion before 24 weeks being legal, based on the ability of a baby to live outside the womb, rightly one of the most liberal abortion policies across the developed world. It is an example of liberal overreach which, I fear, will cause an unhelpful backlash. gbnews.com/politics/abort…
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@MadelaineLucyH @yuanyi_z Crimes normally are punished "after the fact". It's hard to maintain that something is still illegal if there can't be any punishment for it after the fact.
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Wrong! You’re just collapsing completely different things.
Abortion pills by post are prescribed early in pregnancy under medical guidance. They are not a mechanism for terminating a full term, viable pregnancy, they would not work properly.
And “not prosecuting women” doesn’t make something a lawful or available practice. It means the state isn’t punishing them after the fact, not that the act becomes permitted, safe, or even possible in reality. There is NO case where a woman has been prosecuted for aborting a pregnancy “hours before birth.”
You’re still describing a scenario that doesn’t exist in medicine or practice.
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The whole point of the vote yesterday, which passed by the way, was to decriminalise the act for women who do it. It's a strange defence of the policy by pretending it's not the policy.
Madelaine Hanson@MadelaineLucyH
Wrong. There is NO legal pathway or clinical precedent for a healthy woman with a viable pregnancy to obtain an elective abortion at 9 months in the UK. Late-term abortions are tightly restricted and only permitted in serious medical circumstances. If she was to do this at home (wholly unprecedented) and the fetus was viable, it would come under infanticide.
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@K_Niemietz You blame the West for her being what she is but not her parents who groomed her to be this way?
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2026-Cuba has the system which 2023-Greta wanted.
I don't blame Greta personally, though: She's just a commie kid with generic trendy opinions. She doesn't need to have a coherent worldview.
I blame the West's cultural establishment for turning her into a cult figure.
Daniel Turner@DanielTurnerPTF
Greta Thunberg in 2023: If we don't end fossil fuels, it will be a "death sentence." Greta Thunberg in 2026: President Trump must allow oil imports to Cuba. I guess the "climate crisis" has negotiable deadlines.
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@anthonyzenkus @SergioG47890462 So? There were many other countries they could trade with.
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@SergioG47890462 Cuba has been under a US embargo for decades.
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Before the 1959 revolution, when Cuba was run by the mob, 40% of urban and 60% of rural Cubans were malnourished and most people in the countryside didn't have running water, electricity or public education - while 1 in 4 Cubans were fully illiterate. So everyone in the "if only Castro hadn't done this or that" crowd should probably read a book before spouting their ignorant heads off and showing us what clowns you all are.
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Maybe - just maybe - he’s finally realised that wrongful state-sanctioned deaths aren’t the legacy he should want his premiership to be remembered for? 🤷♀️ (No, I think it’s internal Labour politics too.)
theguardian.com/society/2026/m…
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@edrimmer @timothy_stanley Because they're based on personal matters it's between the patient and the Drs, not twitter.
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Tonight peers vote on abortion: a social justice issue.
In one ward, doctors fight to save a baby. In another, they kill a baby. The difference, very often, comes down to which baby is wanted or can be afforded.
Where is the equality? Where is the fairness?
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@yuanyi_z @jhallwood Don't count chickens before they're hatched. The Lords could still decide to pass the Leadbeater bill.
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We were told by the sages of Bloosky that there was no cut-through on assisted suicide. Haven't heard a peep from them since we killed two AS bills!
Luke Tryl@LukeTryl
Would say the two most successful 21st Century UK social issue campaigns: Pro gay marriage (big shift in attitudes in short space of time) Anti Assisted Dying (even against public in principle consensus, and shifting elites during process) What have I missed (am sure loads!)?
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@oldishbird1 @ShepherdWales How is it any different from legalisation in practice? That they didn't amend the abortion act itself does not mean they haven't changed the law as it pertains to abortion. Something that was " criminalised" will carry on legal penalties
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@ShepherdWales Abortion up to birth is NOT made legal by this provision. It does not alter, in any detail, the provisions of the Abortion Act 1967. It only prevents a woman herself being criminalised for procuring an abortion. Decriminalisation is not legalisation.
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The only time this was put to the electorate was in Corbyn’s 2019 manifesto - he lost. Starmer didn’t have the balls to be honest and put it in his 2024 manifesto.
The public don’t want this.
Abortion up to birth, for any reason is now legal.
Note: you can already phone up, give a false gestation and get abortion by post.
This is just evil.
Right To Life UK@RightToLifeUK
There has been no public clamour for this law change, nor did anyone vote for it - it was not in the Government’s manifesto. This is the greatest change to abortion law since 1967, yet there has been no consultation, no national debate and no impact assessment. 4/
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Doing slides for my talk in King's Lynn tomorrow,* with a little AI help to reconstruct what was lost during the Reformation. This is Ely's Lady Chapel, as we went from a world where believing was seeing to one where believing was hearing (and later, reading).
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@Theresa4Talent @ShepherdWales @churchofengland How do they decriminalise it without changing the law?
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@ShepherdWales Omg ENOUGH! The #Abortion law HAS NOT CHANGED! The law is to decriminalise the 1 or 2 women that try to terminate pregnancy at late stage. They are slready in a distressed probably mentally ill state. @churchofengland #Politicians & laws shd protect ppl.
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It was already legal to terminate an unviable pregnancy at any stage to exceptional circumstances: To save the mother's life, prevent grave permanent injury to her health, or in cases of severe fetal disability but it had to be carried out in a hospital.
They have just made it legal to abort a baby up until birth or any reason and thanks to ‘pill by post’, it could be done via a telephone call, lying about gestation age, take a pill, no medical care - giving the baby a prolonged death and putting the life of the mother at risk.
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@savoy_girl @ShepherdWales How is that any different in effect from legalising it?
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@ShepherdWales They haven’t. They have voted to decriminalise women who act outside of the current medical system, at any point.
Including abuse of pills by post (which I don’t think should be available).
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@parissolemn @Scarlett__Mag lolol What 'manifesto' are you talking about, then?
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