Mary Honeyball

Mary Hilda Rosamund Honeyball[3] (born 12 November 1952 in Weymouth, Dorset) is a former British Labour Party politician.

During the 1980s, she ran the Council for Voluntary Service in the London Borough of Newham, before going on to work as a Senior Manager for Scope, the disability charity.

[8] She was also a regular blogger on women's rights, religion and politics,[9] and is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.

[10] When commenting on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in May 2008, Honeyball asked whether ministers should be allowed to remain on the front bench of government if they decide to oppose abortion legislation.

[11] In the same article, Honeyball also said that Catholicism exercised a "vice-like grip" on the legislative processes over large parts of Continental Europe, blocking women in Ireland and Portugal's right to abortion.