Título: Nadine Dorries
Seção: Abortion time limits
Background: Dorries was born as Nadine Vanessa Bargery in Liverpool. Her father was a bus driver who became a lift operator having suffered from Raynaud's disease, which had necessitated the amputation of his toes. Her father was a Roman Catholic of Irish descent, while her mother was an English Protestant. Dorries was raised as a Protestant.

Conteúdo: In 2009, she gave this account of her 2005 selection:  "Three weeks before the 2005 general election I, a council estate Scouser, was selected as the Conservative candidate to represent a southern rural constituency. Because the vacancy occurred so quickly and so close to D-day, the party provided my association with a shortlist of seventeen candidates, of which about five were women. Following a long day of interviews in hot sunny rooms, the list was whittled down to a shortlist of three ... I was informed that I had been selected outright on the first ballot ... That pride, that sense of achievement, the knowledge that I was selected on the basis of my performance and merit above all other candidates on that day is what enables me to hold my head up high in this place."  Dorries's account of her own selection appears to contradict a news report which The Times ran at the time, reporting that Conservative Campaign Headquarters placed a majority of women on the shortlist and pressed for the selection of a female candidate:  "Mrs Dorries, who has three teenage children, easily beat her 11 rivals and won the plum safe seat on the first ballot at the selection this weekend. Party officials were thrilled that the seat has gone to a woman. Previously, only two women had been selected in the 17 safe seats where sitting MPs have retired. Senior party figures had made clear to local dignitaries that they would like the seat to go to a woman and presented the constituency with a short

user: What were her views on abortion time limits?

assistant: an experience that influenced her campaign to lower the point during a pregnancy at which an abortion can be performed.

user: What was the experience?

assistant: Dorries has said she witnessed "botched" abortions on two occasions,

user: Was she successful in lowering the point at which an abortion can be performed?

assistant: Parliament voted by 187 to 108 to reject the bill.

user: What was her reaction to that?

assistant: In May 2008, Dorries tabled an amendment to the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

user: What did the amendment say?

assistant: Dorries tabled an amendment to the proposed Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill seeking to reduce the upper limit for abortions to 20 weeks from the current 24 weeks of pregnancy.

user: Was this successful?

assistant: Dorries' amendment was defeated by 332 votes to 190, with a separate 22-week limit opposed by 304 votes to 233.

user: Did she try again?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Was there anything else interesting about her abortion views?

assistant: My view is that the only way forward is to argue for a reduction in the time limit ... it's every baby's right to have a life."

user: Does she plan to keep pursuing this issue?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER