nadine dorries: I would prefer a 9 week limit for abortions

Via Unity, the balanced view of Nadine Dorries from October 2007, who has since repeatedly claimed that she isn't interested in pushing her own opinion but just wants the law to reflect advances in medical science:

I do not stand at zero weeks. I believe life begins and ends with the first and last heartbeat, which is around 9 - 12 weeks.

What I do believe in, is women being in full possession of the facts and at the moment they aren't, because the woman might change her mind and that would get in the way of the abortionist waiting for a payment.

A woman seeking an abortion in this country is the victim of a well organised industry.

You are right about one thing, I do want to go lower than 20 weeks - I would settle for the European average of 13 weeks, but would prefer 9.

So, either Dorries supports an unannounced abortion law based on the detection of fetal heart beats, or is a massive hypocrite for making a public argument which entirely contradicts the moral basis of her own private beliefs.

The fact that this preference for nine weeks has slipped from her public statements will have something to do with the fact that there's no support - scientific or otherwise - for such a measure, and that the only way to even think about gathering public support for her crusade is to make her personal opinions look like the rational, measured judgements of others rather than a figure she has pulled out of the air.

Incidentally, if Dorries believes that all women seeking abortions are victims of "a well organised industry," why isn't she campaigning for a ban on that supposed industry? Why isn't she even interested in reforming that industry?

Could it just be that she objects to all abortion and has been lying through her teeth about it?