Boris Johnson says U.S. abortion decision is a “big step backwards”

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  1. While I am pro life I am empathetic to the need for choice.

    So In this case he is correct it is a step backwards.

  2. It makes sense really. How can they allow abortions with all the shootings over there, they need all the kids they can get. How’s about focus on gun control instead.

  3. Getting involved in the internal affairs of a foreign country now, is he? So, quid pro quo, it’s perfectly acceptable for US politicians to pronounce their views on the Peace Process and Northern Ireland Protocol.

  4. You know you are seriously fucked when a lying manipulative buffoon like Boris Johnson is able to legitimately take the high ground against you.

  5. For a while there I thought he wasn’t going to make a statement. Kier did hours ago.

    I’m somewhat relieved, and that he not only condemned the US position, but reiterated ours.

  6. It would be easy to joke about how the man who constantly impregnates mistresses would be in favour of abortions but this is an important issue and shows a clear distinction between our two countries.

    The USA is being dismantled by an extremist Right using Religion as the weapon. The GOP are literally discussing ways to rig the next election and ramping up their supporters to be ready for it. The official statement about taking Rights away from women came with a clear statement of intent to remove Gay Rights, Contraception, and even risk Interracial Marriage.

    We need to push back against the Americanisms encroaching our politics before we empower such backwards actions being considered here.

  7. In the same week his cabinet are talking about rolling back maternity allowances because they’re just pesky european civil rights that we don’t need anymore.

    He has the moral highground of an anthill that’s underground.

  8. When you make such a bad decision that even Boris Johnson is well on the right side of it.

    For fucks *sake,* America.

  9. I hope more British people realise what kind of country America is. I still feel way too many people get seduced by the monetary aspect of life in the US and just follow the $ signs. I’m also worried about how certain sections of our minority population look towards the US such as the black and Indian population. Hopefully this is a wake up call for us to not continually import their inane policies and culture wars.

  10. This seems like a really good time to remind the world that the Tories are just about to strip UK ~~Citizens~~ Subjects of their Human Rights Act rights. Which is an effective step towards abolishing Abortion Rights in the UK. And the reintroduction of the Death Penalty. If you have been paying attention for the last decade – *possibly the last four decades* – the Right in America and the UK have been marching to the same beat in rolling back **any** progress that has taken place in the Twentieth Century.

    The reality is this is Boris being performative. And he still has it. People are still swallowing the act.

  11. What did they expect when they elected Trump? Everybody knew in 2016 that the next president would fill a vacancy in the court and that a number of the justices were older people who may not live another four years.

    Like with guns this is very much an American problem, in the rest of the West we have very much settled the abortion laws. Certainly in England, Wales and Scotland there is no real threat to abortion rights, some (mainly a minority of Tory MPs) would vote against abortion but there is zero chance it could get through the house of commons or devolved governments without a huge unforseeable societal shift of opinion.

  12. Talk about pot calling kettle, he don’t have a fucking leg to stand on the dopey bastard.

    That would be like me drowning puppies and than saying america is bad for drowning kittens.

    I swear he’s starting to act even more dumber than trump and he set the bar low.

  13. then maybe do something about some of your MP’s who seem to have come out in full support of the decision

  14. Why the fuck anyone is giving this buffoon a slap on the back for stating the obvious is beyond me.

    Knowing Boris and his U turns the no abortions in the UK in a week?? 20 – 1?

  15. So will he condemned my local tory MP who it has been revealed recently has been paid 22k a year from an American religious pressure group connected to anti abortion work?…. no? Didn’t think so.

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