Right to Life: where do party leaders currently stand?

Apr 24, 2017 by

by Archbishop Cranmer:

Lord Alton has done a useful (and very interesting) bit of digging on how the current party leaders have voted over recent years on a series of Right to Life issues. It is reproduced here with permission and no further comment: their voting records rather speak for themselves.

Where They Stand – the political leaders, their parties, the candidates, and the right to life

2017 is the fiftieth anniversary of the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act. It went through its Second Reading in the House of Commons with only 29 MPs voting against. Since then more than 8 million British babies have been aborted and millions of human embryos experimented upon – with laws even allowing the creation of animal-human hybrid embryos. The next Parliament will almost certainly vote again on whether to permit euthanasia and today many more MPs now support the right to life.

When voters come to use their votes on June 8th they will not only be voting for a new Government, they will be voting for individual Members of Parliament who will hold in their hands the gift of life or death.

A voter who wants to affirm the right to life of an unborn child, stop destructive experiments on human embryos, and safeguard disabled people from the dangers of euthanasia, needs to establish where their individual candidates stand and weigh up the positions of the political parties.

Beyond all other questions, this one is about the right to life itself.

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