from Right to Life UK
Tonia Antoniazzi has tabled an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would make extreme changes to our abortion laws.
How would the amendment change the law?
The Antoniazzi amendment would make it more likely that healthy babies are aborted at home for any reason, up to birth.
Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment (NC1) would change the law so it would no longer be illegal for women to perform their own abortions for any reason, and at any point up to and during birth.
If this amendment becomes law, it would likely lead to a significant increase in the number of women performing late-term abortions at home, endangering the lives of many more women.
The proposed change to the law would also lead to an increased number of viable babies’ lives being ended well beyond the 24-week abortion time limit and beyond the point at which they would be able to survive outside the womb.
The amendment is more extreme than an amendment to make changes to abortion legislation proposed by Diana Johnson MP in 2024 (NC1 to the Criminal Justice Bill).
The Antoniazzi amendment goes further than the Johnson amendment in that it is not limited in its application to the three pieces of legislation that the Johnson amendment applied to.
The Antoniazzi amendment applies to all current and future legislation “related to abortion”.