Discourse removed from real world
Time and again politicians who are opposed to legislating for abortion rose to their feet and addressed questions weighted with huge scepticism about the bona fides of pregnant women and head doctors.
It was as if these categories of citizens were conspiring, perhaps with others, inside a Trojan Horse, to inveigle the notion of abortion into the national psyche, in order to open up the mythical floodgates through which hordes of women would charge, demanding abortion for the masses.