How can the Government moralise about abortion and at the same time criticise single

How can the Government moralise about abortion and at the same time criticise single parents?"Do such strong feelings stem from personal experience? "Oh, I've had several, darling Hahaha. No! I'm sure only women writers get asked questions as though you have to have experienced something to write about it. Its interest is way beyond the personal." Does she consider herself a moral person? "I think I'm amoral, increasingly so. My major criticism of Catholicism is that it's easy to be brought up a Catholic and never think about Christian virtues as they should be practised in daily life."Moral or not, she settled down a year ago to being a "married lady who doesn't go out as much as she used to", cocooned in her "very nice flat" in north London. I would describe myself as a Christian rather than a Catholic."One of the central scenes of The Temporary describes an abortion, an issue about which she feels passionately "It is never written about. I've only found a few instances in books that are well-known I'm amazed how taboo it still is.

I think it's a moral conflict which is visited on people who are in no position to understand it. There are so many aspects of it that are interesting to a woman and a Catholic, because I think you probably are a woman before you're a Catholic I think it's a scandal. With sex education and contraception, no one needs to get pregnant if they don't want to be."Her words are tumbling out "Perhaps people do dissociate sex from pregnancy. You'd be hard pushed to find a women who'd say that she didn't believe that."She has found, however, that feminism and the Roman Catholicism she was brought up in are uneasy bedfellows. "I think the Catholic Church is behaving appallingly, being singularly unhelpful to people, especially women, so I have no truck with it. The older you get, the harder it is to sustain a practical moral agenda if you live a certain type of life.

Once you're starting to clash with such things on an almost daily basis, you end up in such a questioning mode that you feel you've deprived yourself of the right to practise. Nobody applauds it, but we're all feminists whether we like it or not. We all go to school, we all have the opportunity to have a career, and we all believe in our right not to be groped and discriminated against, which to me constitutes feminism. All feminism means is that you believe women are equal to men. I think it's a very under- rated book, and it will be seen as very important, because that's the way now to discuss people's anxieties."She does not like being asked "girl questions" and is not ashamed to declare herself a feminist, "for what it's worth. No one says that any more, it marks you out as being over 25 But yes, I am I think people are amazingly ungrateful to feminism. "Psychological drama is very hard, because it isn't necessarily visual.