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Nadine Dorries says she is pro-choice, but since they got into Parliament it has tried to tighten the rules for the abortion. Is it a true free spirit, or just confused?

You'll Nadine Dorries, Conservative MP for Mid Bedfordshire, to know their views on abortion. You aren 't the only chance she has - she pressed her chances with Tory high command does not agree with Cameron on grammar schools, and after expenses scandal, she said that soon the Parliament would be only for "millionaires and monks' fit be. But she has her six years in parliament in principle be used to whittle down the law on abortion. In 2006 she led a 10-minute rule bill in order to bring the time limit to 21 weeks (24), together with a "cooling-off period," contact between a GP and having a termination. Later admitted that would slow the process, the withdrawal period, and is no longer in it. In 2008 she mounted a campaign to bring the period to 20 weeks. More recently, it has proposed amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill: optional namely the need, "independent" counseling for women who seek abortions, and the need to take responsibility for the abortion policies of the Royal College of moving obstetrician and gynecologist at the National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE). We 'll with these two anodyne-sounding measures in a minute offer, but let' s not forget their 10-minute rule bill on the teaching of sexual abstinence in schools, which will have its second reading debate in January.

I meet them in Portcullis House, and with the caveat that I disagreed with basically anything that comes out of her mouth, I like it. It 's very warm but not smarmy, it' s never rude, she has the candor of someone who never expect, is a high office - which she isn 't, apparently because of this annoying high schools. "I was toast of the day," she says, "and I knew I was. 'M not a young, strong, ambitious MP. I' I \ ve come to the parliament, after I 've anything done. I 've had my children, I' ve had my career. "She 's now 54th After three years as a nurse, she spent a year in Africa runs a community school, in the early '80s, they had three daughters, her own company, which they eventually sold to Bupa and adjusted, Oliver Letwin, before an election itself.

"Is it only the schools?" I ask. "Or you're on a total maverick?"

"My views are not in tandem with the leadership of the party. I think my views are rooted in common sense." And what are rooted in their views? "You 'd have to ask them."

If it's separate from the guide, it '\ s very loyal to the Party: .. "I suppose one advantage of the coalition is that the Liberal Democrats will be made to be destroyed at the next election, that 'sa positive" It raises many Tories feel that way, but it' s not common for people, to say it. On any given policy issue, their first reaction is to defend it. For example, she tells me how the Labour government's collapse of the family with the way the benefits were organized rewarded. It 's only a few days since I Anne Marie Carrie, Chief Executive of Barnardo \ includes' s lament the fact that the proposed universal benefit cap is active force couples to separate and live as two households. "I 'd want to check this before I commented on it," says Doerries. But it's obviously true: If you receive benefits by household type cap, it '\ s only logical that a family with, say, four children, would be better off than two units of single-parent, two children. "Well, Iain Duncan Smith would never imagine breaking an advantage that would be a family," she says. "I know Iain well and everything he pursues world champions, urges, is the creation and support and strengthen relationships." Well, that 's all right.

Later, I check this with the charity Brook, which sets the guidelines for sex ed. A teacher would usually say, a classroom that underage sex was illegal. Such claim, the banana (Dorries said on The One Show she 'd been seeing a class of seven-year-olds how to put a condom on a banana, I can \ \)' t prove it never happened, but it sounds unlikely.

Pretty much Dorries 's rhetoric is this area: it doesn' t seem likely, but it 's very falsifiable. She throws me a lurid account of a late-term abortion she saw recently. "Why do you see one recently?" I ask.

"Because I did it."

"So, I went as an observer?"

"With the mother 's permission, keeps the mother' s hand. I 'm not saying who it was or where it was."

"Was it in this country?"

"I 'm not saying where it was, because there are so few, it would be easy to identify."

The point of the story is that the fetus is about beating, and a sheet tray was used to dismember it. But I would also ask the question: who would take Nadine Dorries in with them to a 'social "abortion at 24 weeks?

Dorries isn 'ta Catholic: her passion springs from the years (1978-1981) she spent as a nurse in Liverpool and Warrington. "Since I put a baby to breathe, was conducted in a bedpan, and I was told, a cover over it. I felt like '\ d was part of a murder, do not remember a nursing home procedures. I am the sister who me against a wall and said, "You 'd better toughen up if you want to be a nurse because you' re going to see a lot of this. '"But she says she' s pro-choice, and the 20 weeks is their preferred term (in the past she has so she believes life begins at nine to 12 weeks, and the period should be to say ).

We have a brief skirmish over a remark made in its 2008 campaign to the point at which a fetus would feel pain: There 's A study by the University of Arkansas, identified the pain to 19 weeks, but mainstream medical opinion brings it to 26 + weeks. She says, "I can ream ream of studies," and then send me a short article in which a doctor, Martin Ward Platt, concerned that the current research relies too heavily on the neurosciences and not enough on observation. I don 't want to get into this quagmire, it' sa moot point. You either believe in Arkansas, feel in this case, even at 20 weeks the fetus or pain, or you believe that the rest of the medical institution, which is full of scientists, contains a lot of people who would like to see more research, and who are willing to revise their opinion if they do it. The frustration comes from the reasons Dorries is for non-inclusion of people 's proof: "Who sits on the RCOG [Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists] Committee The people who sit on the RCOG guidance committee, what they do for a life?, all of them? "

"Are you kidding? The RCOG?"

"Not all the RCOG - there is a special committee that investigated the guidelines for the care of a woman notices them developed 're all abortionists to earn their livelihood through abortion \ ..." She says 65% of GPs agree with her, and I meet that 77% of the BMA does not agree with her. "What 's the BMA?" Says triumphantly. "A union!" At one point, and I must say I find this endearing, she says that everyone agrees with her, apart from Twitter and the Guardian.

This theme, that people are profiteering from abortion, is particularly strong when she describes the British Pregnancy Advisory Service: it is mainly from this charity she has mined her "knowledge that the abortion industry has become very entwined, financially, with politics". I didn't get to the bottom of what "entwined" meant; I assume she didn't mean backhanders. In essence, she thinks the BPAS tries to increase the number of abortions, for its own profit motive, despite the fact that it's a charity - a not-for-profit organisation. "I can produce evidence to show you they are. I can give you a copy of their marketing report. I can show you their job adverts, pushing executives to increase their market share in the abortion industry." I later put these claims to the BPAS; they say they want to perform abortions because they do a good job - women have a good experience with them.

"The BPAS chief 's package of at least £ 200k a year, so that' s why she wants to keep their market share go \," says Doerries. A nonprofit organization, has no obligation BPAS, Ann Furedi 's set to open content, but says she deserves nothing like that.

Dorries continues: "When you go in for an abortion, you're counselled in this room which has no end of soft-marketing techniques around you, you are told, don't worry, 'three out of four women have had this at your age'. That's like going into an off-licence and saying 'Is this wine nice?' and them saying, 'Well, we sell a lot of it.'" The figure given by the BPAS is one in three, over a lifetime, not three in four "at your age" (I'm not sure of the age of Dorries's hypothetical woman). I don't see how telling someone a true statistic butters them up to have an abortion, but that's by the by; if you're going to slate someone, you should be accurate. Dorries has never contacted the BPAS and asked about its consultations; nor, the BPAS says, has Frank Field, who is the second MP on the counselling amendment.

To these measures: Towards Guideline responsibility to abortion from the RCOG to sounds fine Nice, but confirmed the claim that the RCOG is motivated by profit and not female welfare, I'm surprised more members are not angry about . I 'm also surprised that they' re not better defended in Parliament, because it is an insult. In any case it is' s not \ their fault that we keep getting pregnant by accident. You bust a gut to us contraception. This "independent advice" modification, and other insults to the BPAS abortion provider on the same grounds. I remain skeptical Dorries is really pro-choice, and I 'm still skeptical 20 weeks is really the limit, they' d like to stop. Support it undermines the good name of people, abortion, and if it succeeds in leaving these women 's rights, in the coming years, defended poorly. But as a person? I like them. If I have didn 't a uterus or a social conscience, I might even vote for them.