We have a wildly skewed readership judging from the poll results and e-mails. If you're a cool-headed analytical type or even a professional or lay mediator, please consider getting your head around a summary of issues and angles and coming up with a diagram or something. I've read so many e-mails on IVF my mind's a blur. In a country where birth rates are stillborn or even negative, every cent that goes to 'singles' and 'lezzo wannabes' is well spent.
Somebody has to have the bloody children.
What I find really hard to get my head around is the argument that this is about the rights of children to have both a mother and father. It is so weird because they seem to be setting themselves up as the defenders of children who don't even yet exist - and they are so concerned about protecting their rights, they want to stop them from existing. So women who do exist have to have their rights diminished unless they can find a man. It is even worse than the anti-abortion argument. Part of the problem is that most of the people in the Cabinet are unable to imagine that this issue would ever apply to them or people they love.