Dr Blimp?
Prom Mrs M. Simm-s
Sir: Lady Bountiful was cross when the Poor started disappearing and no longer required her soup-kitchen. Dr Linklater (known in happier army days as Colonel Blimp) is cross because no one seems to want his advice on education (of all things!), sex instruction and nutrition, now that there are greater experts around on these various subjects. He also takes a dim vIew of not being allowed to advertise his racial prejudices, doesn't think it proper for someone to become prime minister who is not a pukka ' family man,' and sighs nostalgically for the good old days when suicide was a crime. For some reason, no one seeks his views on homosexuality either. This must surely be the government's fault for "virtually putting the stamp of official approval on buggery." Alternatively, it might just be that Dr blimp's views on the subject are considered slightly dotty, since he appears to believe that "venereal complications " result exclusively from this perversion" and not from heterose)(tut' ones. He takes similarly Blimpish views of abortion law reform. It really disgusting that some women who do not want babies are now permitted to have their abortions legally and safely, rather than in the back streets, as in the patriotic past. In the good old days, fifty English women each year died of abortion (and serve them right). Now that we have the Abortion Act, only twenty-three Englishwomen died in 1972, which shows how jolly decadent We are becoming as a society. What is More, as Mr Norman St John-Stevas he discovered to his annoyance when ne asked the Minister a question on August 9, 1972, the number of' Female Admissions in Connection with Abor tion
' fell from 5,101 in 1966 to 2,872 in
1971. in the London Emergency Bed Service. In a series of National Opinion Polls, a consistently high proportion of general practitioners (between 65 per cent and 75 per cent) have said they Support the 1967 Abortion Act and Would not wish to see it restricted,
The country must be going to the
clogs! M. Simms 1.7 Dunstan Road, London NWII
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