Why do the left have to lie so much in order to make their case?

In both of the following articles, Laurie Penny writing at the New Statesman and The Socialist Worker Online deliberately portray my amendment to provide independent counselling as something which is compulsory, which is a deliberate lie as they will both have read the amendment and subsequent articles very clearly indeed.

I will say it again, for the umpteenth time;

It will be compulsory for a doctor to offer a woman presenting with a crisis pregnancy the option of independent counselling; she can take it or leave it. No compulsion whatsoever, however, to those women who may be feeling slightly vulnerable, it may be a lifeline. What decent person would deny any woman that?

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/laurie-penny/2011/07/dorries-abortion-rights-choice

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=25377