Deputy Prime Minister and Health Secretary Therese Coffey
(Picture: REUTERS)It could have been a historic week, with a third female Prime Minister and a record number of women in her reshuffled Cabinet. Instead, women all over Britain are worried about what those appointments might mean for their ability to control their own bodies.
Enter Thérèse Coffey, our new Health Secretary and a woman whose record on abortion rights makes for more alarming reading than your next energy bill. The practising Roman Catholic has previously said she would “prefer that people didn’t have abortions, but I am not going to condemn people that do”.
