Votes by party: Ayes, Noes, No Votes Recorded
Campaigners vow to fight extreme abortion up to birth amendment in the Lords, after government bill hijacked to rush through seismic law change after just two hours’ debate from Right to Life UK
‘A terrible vote’ – Jacob Rees-Mogg
Another Day in the Death Cult by Laura Dodsworth, The Free Mind
Pro-lifers vow to fight ‘barbaric’ decriminalisation of abortion up to birth after MPs vote it through, Christian Today
A Dark Day for Britain: Labour Votes Through Extreme Abortion Law Allowing Terminations Up to Birth, Conservative Post
Abortion up to birth has no place in Britain by Georgia L Gilholy, Conservative Home
Statement on the passing of Crime and Policing Bill amendment on abortion from the Catholic Church Bishops’ Conference
Christians react to landmark decision decriminalising abortion in England and Wales, Premier
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Carla Lockhart MP: After abortion was decriminalised in New Zealand, late-term abortions rose by 43%.This proves the criminal law is a deterrent – and scrapping it has real, tragic consequences.
Tim Montgomerie: One of the darkest days in our nation’s history. Children that can easily survive outside of the womb can be killed without consequence. Absolutely shameful.
Sarah Vine: Lucy Letby’s youngest victim was born at 29 weeks. She died in her 30th week. And yet Parliament has today sanctioned the killing of babies up to 41 weeks of gestation. Where is the logic in that? Where is the morality? Why is one murder and the other not? Has anyone stopped to think this through?
Miriam Cates: Just 1% of Brits want abortion to be allowed until birth. Full-term abortions were not in any party’s manifesto. Yet with no consultation and scarcely an hour of parliamentary debate, MPs have voted to decriminalise abortion to birth. And we wonder why people have lost faith in politicians. Watch on GB News
George Galloway: Having voted for infanticide tonight (by a huge majority) our parliament may later this week vote for assisted suicide in pods. This is today’s Sodom and Gomorrah
Liz Truss: This is horrifying. It needs to be reversed. This is not what our country believes or stands for.
Isabel Oakeshott: There are NO circumstances in which it is acceptable to kill a healthy baby that can survive outside the womb. This is not ‘progressive’ – it is Stone Age. There will be horrors.
Dame Andrea Jenkyns: This is tragic news for unborn babies, MPs have just voted to decriminalise abortion at any stage. So, a baby can be aborted at any stage of pregnancy. As a mother myself, I find this abhorrent and sickening.
Michael Robinson (SPUC) What a desperately stupid and wicked country we have become.
Andrew Lilico: We’ve voted to kill our old, our sick & our infants. We deserve everything that’s coming to us.
Fr Anthony Howe: MPs have voted to legalised abortion up to the moment of birth. Unspeakably repugnant and frankly evil. I’ve never felt so ashamed of this country. God have mercy.
Philip Blond: The idealism of Labour is rightly to defend the weak and vulnerable but social liberalism has eaten that away to such an extent that the party of the left now endorses in effect – the murder of children
Caroline Farrow: In a country where babies can survive from 21 weeks…
Parliament just said: Go ahead. Abort them at 40.
Rebecca Paul MP: I’m devastated by the decision taken by Parliament this evening. I truly hope I’m wrong on this, because if I’m not, many vulnerable women and third trimester babies will be harmed.
Andrew Bridgen: It just about sums up our current Parliament that they would vote to decriminalise abortion after 24 weeks, it’s legalised murder to abort a baby at a stage of development which means it could be viable to live outside the womb. The overwhelming majority of the public and even more women oppose this move.
Peter Whittle: Grotesque. This country is plumbing the depths in this century.
Sarah Pochin MP: Watch in Parliament
Lois McLatchie Miller: Abortion up to birth is obscene.My heart breaks for the UK today. 🇬🇧
Adrian Hilton: (former blogger known as Archbishop Cranmer) By decriminalising abortion up to birth, Parliament has erased the concept of prenatal personhood in law. The fully formed child in the womb is now an unformed foetus until the moment it draws breath: life begins with the first cry. The unborn child is a nonperson with no rights.
Jim Allister MP: Is there any other area of law governing the taking of life where the guardrails of the criminal law have been removed? Yet that is what is proposed here, when it comes to the voiceless child.
SPUC Pro-Life: Tonight, MPs voted to legalise abortion up to birth. This is seismic. But please don’t be disheartened. Since SPUC’s formation, we’ve been entirely up against it, but have never relented. Let this propel us all into greater action for unborn babies. Watch here.
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