Do we really want all we wish for?

It wasn't meant to be like this... which is why we have to be so careful with other new laws. Babies are now being aborted because of minor imperfections - club foot, webbed fingers - none of which are any threat to quality of life. Would-be parents are expecting, demanding perfection. Nothing short of that is good enough.

Meanwhile, the number of abortions continue to rise to approximately 200,000 a year. There has also been a huge rise in the home abortion pills. Abortion has become easy and commonplace. Instead of the last resort of a desperate woman it has become merely an alternative form of contraception.

Contraception has never been so easy to access, so why are we so dozey about using it?

When I marched for A Woman's Right to Choose, I don't think that was what I was marching for.

We wanted abortion on demand - but we underestimated how great the demand would be and how flimsy the excuses.

As the saying goes, Be careful what you wish for...

Ideas change, rules bend, laws become increasingly elastic as society moves on. We have little control over how our intentions will be interpreted in years to come.

And that's why I'm beginning to have doubts about the Euthanasia Bill.

It has always seemed right, common decency, that people should have the right to die if they wished, with dignity. What is the point of dragging on a life that has long ceased to be any sort of life?

Why should someone continue to live if life just means suffering and pain? If they wish to go, then don't keep them against their will, let them go. If they are living in circumstances in which you would shoot a dog out of love and pity, then why should humans exist in agony?

Of course, euthanasia should only be resorted to in extreme circumstances.

Yes - just like abortion was meant to be.

And who will draw that line between helping someone to die when they desperately want to - and encouraging them to die? It is a vital difference. And stringent rules can be bent and eased over time, until they are a million miles - or a lifetime - away from the original intention.

It could so easily happen.

Meanwhile, there has been a huge surge in the number of pensioners having cosmetic surgery. The over-60s are rushing to have their faces lifted, wrinkles smoothed, tummies tucked and breasts and bums made perkier.

It is, of course, the logical extension with our preoccupation with appearance, the natural desire to look as good as possible for as long as possible.

Or maybe they just don't want anyone thinking they're old enough to be put down.

Spare a thought for Clare Conroy of Middlesbrough. Her eight-year-old son Daniel Curtin died ten days after he was hit by a stolen car.

Devastated, his mother still gave permission for his organs to be used to help others. It was a brave and generous gesture.

Now three more people have the chance of life, three lives have been saved.

Daniel died far too young, but his last gift is a fine memorial.

The lawyers are going to love it. After the divorce case in which a childless wife received a £5m settlement after less than three years of marriage, no sane high earning man is going to want to marry.

And who can blame him?

But now there are likely to be laws to protect the rights of people who just live together. The whole point of living together was, it always seemed, precisely that you could get up and leave at any time, without any rights and responsibilities. If you wanted those then you got married.

Not only will we all now be clamouring for pre-nuptial agreements, the lawyers will also be rubbing their hands over no-nup agreements too.

We are all meant to be grown ups now. Whether we marry or just live with someone we do so with our eyes open and our own earning capacity. What grown ups do should be a matter for them alone.

But when it comes to children...that is when we need contracts, agreements, signed in blood and chiselled in concrete - no matter if parents are married or not.

Long before would-be parents throw precautions to the wind, they should work out who is going to raise the baby and who is going to pay for it, including paying for a parent at home. It's a decision that should come long before the pregnancy test and choosing the designer buggy.

Children are a joint responsibility that lasts a lifetime - a fact that still takes some parents by surprise.

Childless grown ups should be able to look after themselves, whatever happens. Let's save the court battles, and the legal agreements for children and those who care for them. And get it sorted the sooner the better.

It could bring a whole new meaning to ante-natal classes.

Young people have apparently no idea of the seasons and what time of year different fruits and vegetables are ready to eat. Can't say I blame them. Fruit and veg have joined the jet set. Peaches, strawberries and fresh green peas are available all year round, so they're only telling it like it is.

Of course, an easy way to keep a check on the seasons is to remember that when the shops are full of thick coats, woolly jumpers and Christmas decorations, then it's high summer. And when the decorations come down, and Easter eggs and gardening stuff flood on to the shelves, well, it's probably Christmas Eve.

Never mind knowing the seasons, with shopping like that I'm surprised we even know which planet we're on.