A Bedfordshire MP has sensationally claimed that she is being subjected to a hate campaign in her battle to cut the number of weeks during which pregnant women can have abortions.

Nadine Dorries - whose constituency includes Harlington and Toddington - said she has been bombarded with threatening phone calls and packages in the post, as well as unpleasant messages scrawled across her windows.

The former nurse wrote on her website: 'The hounds of hell are chasing me.'

And she added: 'This is all meant to destabilise or distract me. I have a very clear message to those who are attempting to do this - back off.

'You will not stop me, you will not undermine me, you do not scare me. In fact, you make me much more determined than I ever was before. You give me strength.'

She said some of the phone calls she has received have been scary, angry and 'downright nasty'.

Ms Dorries has hardly been out of the headlines in recent weeks as she is at the forefront of a campaign to cut the current 24-week abortion limit to 20 weeks.

Earlier this month she launced a Parliamentary campaign calling for a legal shakeup, and she said: 'Britain has 200,000 abortions a year, or 600 a day. That is just to many. We must slow down on abortion.'

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