THE CULTURE WARS ARE A ROUT:

"I can't believe what I just saw," wrote historian Tim Stanley in the Telegraph on Thursday: "a Doctor Who episode with an anti-abortion message. Seriously.  On the BBC."

He wasn't the only one so stunned. Peter Williams, executive officer of London-based charity Right to Life, says that despite having serious reservations about much of the philosophy and politics that to his mind have marked the classic BBC series since its 2005 relaunch, he was "taken aback by how pro-life the last episode was."

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