An important column from Melanie Phillips:

You really do have to wonder which is the more extreme effect of our politically correct culture — the way in which it brutalises people, or the way it turns them into cerebrally-challenged automatons?
Both attributes were on startling display in the latest piece of advice to emanate from no less august a body than the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
This guidance, intended for all doctors, nurses and counsellors advising women contemplating having an abortion, said such women should be told that terminating a pregnancy was safer than having a baby.
To which one can only ask: safer for whom, precisely? Not for the baby, certainly.
This is not meant to be a flip comment. For the point is that these doctors seemed to have totally lost sight of some basic humanity here.

Read on.

And she makes the most commonsense, obvious point that is not made enough — one that might actually get us somewhere:

if individual safety really were the top priority, our society would be seeking to reverse the disastrous doctrine of ‘lifestyle choice’ which has produced this rampant sexual promiscuity and catastrophic rise in teenage abortion.
But don’t expect the dehumanising automatons of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to say so.