I was told by a colleague that I would unleash the gates of hell if I tried to bring down the legal age of abortion from 24 to 21 weeks - looks like he was right. My staff have been told they will burn in hell, my home has been besieged by anonymous telephone calls, extemist groups have sent out inflammatory messages to their members - it has got so bad that we have had to alert House of Commons security and my constituency police.

Why such extremists think this kind of behaviour will deter me I have no idea. If anything it reinforces my conviction to carry on.