Virginia Ironside

Virginia Ironside (born 1945 in London, UK) is a British journalist, agony aunt and author. She is the daughter of painter and coin designer Christopher Ironside and fashion designer and the first-ever professor of fashion design at the Royal College of Art Janey Ironside, and the niece of the visionary painter and designer Robin Ironside.

Ironside writes a column, "Dilemmas", for The Independent and a monthly column for The Oldie. Her first book, Chelsea Bird, was published at the age of nineteen. During the 1960s she wrote a rock music column for the Daily Mail newspaper.She is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society.

Ironside received considerable attention after her appearance on BBC One's religious discussion programme, Sunday Morning Live, in 2010. She stated "If a baby's going to be born severely disabled or totally unwanted, surely an abortion is the act of a loving mother." and added "If I were the mother of a suffering child - I mean a deeply suffering child - I would be the first to want to put a pillow over its face... If it was a child I really loved, who was in agony, I think any good mother would." Though some viewers supported Ironside, many complaints were registered on the programme's website message board.

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