Louise Mensch Quotes

Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don’t believe it to be a person but part of a woman’s body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn’t believe it to be a person.

What I enjoy doing is challenging stereotypes of what people believe a Tory must be. You don’t have to say every Tory is in it for themselves – it’s pathetic caricaturing that has no place in the 21st century, and if we can challenge that stereotype, then great.

We’d all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn’t any more important than a train station, a road or a bus service. We don’t worry about police temporarily closing those. Common sense. If riot info and fear is spreading by Facebook and Twitter, shut them off for an hour or two, then restore.

The nature of the internet is that you don’t know who is behind the screen.

That said, I can’t emphasise enough – and I hope you print this – that I absolutely don’t judge anybody at all who has an abortion, nor do I think they are murderers, nor do I think they are baby killers.

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can’t break the laws you’re writing.