The mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has stepped in to reverse a ban on adverts on the London transport network calling for abortion to be decriminalised.
Yes Reader, the same Sadiq Khan who previously banned swimwear adverts...
It is understood that the mayor is seeking an “urgent review” of a Transport for London (TfL) decision to ban the adverts from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (Bpas) charity on the grounds they may bring the Metropolitan police into disrepute.
As if that were possible....
The campaign posters feature the anonymised stories of real women who have been investigated by police and in some cases prosecuted after a termination or pregnancy loss.
The decision to ban the ads came despite TfL previously allowing pro-choice campaign material on buses across London, sponsored by Doctors for Choice and Abortion Talk and featuring the slogan “abortion is healthcare, not a crime”.
But the very law of our land states that under some circumstances, it can indeed be a crime.
But then, it appears a bit of killing goes down well at TfL's advertising department:
Last year, campaign material on assisted dying from Dignity in Dying was also approved to run on the network, including in Westminster tube station.
What a wretched organisation, happy to flaunt its inversion of societal norms while it fleeces the customer blind.
Some would say that it's a shame Khan's parents didn't contemplate this.
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