There was a 1100 increase in the number of abortions last year. One in 10 people who had an abortion last year already had two others, while 30 percent had one other. And 89 11-14 year olds had an abortion last year. I wonder how many had their parent's consent, and I wonder how many had them on the grounds of mental danger to the women concerned, had they given birth.

The gay community is gearing up for the Civil Unions bill with several meetings planned (sounds like a bit of an evangelistic crusade). I couldn`t help noticing that one of the speakers to be at St Andrews on Wednesday night was present at a talk on Civil Unions in Wellington given by Bruce Logan from the Maxim Institute last night. I think the supporters of Civil Unions are more active than the opponents at the moment. I`ll link both bills on Monday, or whenever they officially surface.