Were live until am this morning. What does the budget mean for you . In half an hour, well be answering your questions, so please do get in touch with anything you want to know about your family or business finances. Use the hashtag victorialive. If you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The chancellor is facing accusations of breaking an Election Pledge by increasing National Insurance contributions for many Self Employed workers. After his budget announcement, Philip Hammond is facing growing pressure to reconsider his plan from some conservative mps. The treasury has rejected calls for a re think, insisting the increase will make the National Insurance system fairer. Lets get more on this from our political guru, norman smith. How much pressure is he under . Huge pressure. It is notjust mr hammond has broken the conservative Party Election manifesto, many tories oppose on principle a tax rise on peoples income, but more than that, they belie
the only thing the fda requires is that the sperm be frozen for six months before use and checked for sexually transmitted diseases. that s it. and everything else that is related to the sperm donor s medical history is self-reported, which is obviously ripe for taking liberties. we ve all heard the stories of, you know, donors claiming to be harvard-educated and star athletes, et cetera. sure. and so it s just that sperm banks now tell us in our reporting that what they re relying on is social media. so a doctor doesn t have to verify my patient, a sperm donor, this is all accurate? no, they re not doing that. obviously that would cost more money. fine, but these are children s lives. absolutely. we re talking about life. we re talking about chronic diseases. yeah. things that all of the donor families want to know. and so just checking on social media to say basically, oh, is he wearing a harvard sweatshirt?
the doctor doesn t want to give her as basically the cost her of asking for an abortion. basically as the new price they re extractic from each female patient before they allow the clock to start ticking on a mandatory state imposed 72-hour waiting period which must elapse before the woman is actually allowed to proceed to get the abortion whereupon she gets another pelvic exam. i should tell you as of today the state government in missouri has let us know they re upset about our coverage. they have put out a press release about it denouncing our coverage of this. but our reporting on this matter is correct and the state has not substantively rebutted any of it. as far as we can tell they just don t like this is becoming national news. so that s worth watching, too, to see if missouri keeps up this new policy as the cost of asking to get an abortion. that is worth watching, to see if they keep doing this now that