An Endangered Species

I have written previously and with great foreboding on how government interference in people's lives is increasing at an alarming rate. In the UK this micromanaging of human affairs has over the past decade taken on a very sinister aspect, as the `social engineers` planners and managers, with their army of programmed social workers, invariably armed with a signed and sealed mandate from Brussels via Westminster, intrude into the most private and personal regions of individual liberty and privacy.

The question 'When did you stop beating your wife?' is a well known rhetorical device to illustrate the impossible situation in which whatever answer someone gives traps them into an admission of guilt.

It now appears that the British Government has updated this snare for the modern era with the question: 'When did you stop getting beaten by your husband?' Doctors and midwives are being told to ask all pregnant women if they are being abused by their husbands or boyfriends.

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