I wrote here 10 days ago that just a little bit of sanity is returning to our politically correct society. The smug, self-satisfied practitioners of political correctness have not finished yet, however.Margaret Forrester is a mental health worker employed by the NHS in London. She had an informal conversation with colleagues in the office - not with a patient, notice, but with colleagues in the office - about abortion. She gave a colleague a booklet describing the problems some women had had after abortion.
It referred to women who had experienced post-abortion syndrome, including depression, relationship issues and suicidal feelings, as well as fertility problems.
Miss Forrester was concerned, she said, that women contemplating abortion were not given enough information about the risks involved.
A few days later her manager told her she was being sent home on special leave with full pay. She was ordered not to see any patients and to stay away from any NHS site while an investigation was carried out. She was then told to return to work, but not allowed to do her normal job.
She was called before an internal disciplinary committee accused of "distributing materials some people may find offensive." As far as I am able to ascertain, the decision of the committee has not yet been announced.
"I felt physically sickened by their bullying," she said. She was eventually signed off sick and has not since returned to work.
There is something I would like Miss Forrester to know. I feel sickened, too.
There is something else I would like her to know. She has my full support. Not only that: she should have the full support of every right-thinking person in the country.
I think she is being persecuted for daring to question the accepted abortion culture. If the booklet had said what a wonderful thing it was to have the abortion service we have in the UK, would she have been persecuted? I think not.
