I am lucky in that I am someone who has never faced the choice between a pregnancy and a situation where I was not able to raise a baby. All of my four babies, I was able to welcome into a family that was capable of coping with them and loving them and joying in them. I was raised in a family, also, where babies were joyous and welcomed. But I was also raised by feminist parents and a mother who was a registered nurse in the 1960s, so I was raised with a very clear awareness that the choice to have a baby can be one that is intolerable for some women. I vividly remember the stories from my mother, of nursing a young mum, who, after three children and a very happy marriage, she and her husband simply could not afford a fourth child, and after much travail they chose a backstreet abortion, which was all that was available to them, and as a result that woman contracted a most terrible infection and died horribly in hospital. That is what you people have done: in making the abortion act legal, you have avoided any young women like that young woman, her young husband, and her three children going through that trauma.