from Right to Life UK
Pro-life campaigners have made it clear that they will be fighting an extreme abortion up to birth amendment as it progresses to the House of Lords, after the Government’s Crime and Policing Bill was hijacked to rush through a seismic and unpopular change to abortion law after just two hours’ debate.
Yesterday, the extreme abortion amendment (NC1), tabled by Tonia Antoniazzi MP, was passed by MPs by a vote of 379 to 137.
This amendment, if it remains in the Bill and the Bill receives Royal Ascent, will change the law so it will no longer be illegal for women to perform their own abortions for any reason, including sex-selective purposes, and at any point up to and during birth, likely leading to a significant increase in the number of women performing dangerous late-term abortions at home.
This will likely lead to the lives of many more women being endangered because of the risks involved with ‘DIY’ self-administered late-term abortions and also tragically 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.
Despite the claims of supporters of NC1, it remains rare for women to be investigated for illegal abortions. The recent small increase arises from the ‘pills by post’ scheme that makes it easier for women to acquire abortion pills late in pregnancy without an in-person gestational age check.
Removing any legal deterrent against women performing their own abortions up to birth will make this situation much worse and will enable abortion providers to cover-up the disastrous consequences of the pills by post scheme, for which they lobbied, despite warnings that have now sadly come true about the risks. For example, the case of Stuart Worby, who spiked a woman’s drink to cause the ending of the life of her unborn child at 15 weeks gestation using pills supplied by one of the UK’s largest abortion providers.
Polling published last year found that there is very little public support for this change in the law, with only 16% of the general population supporting such a change, and a majority opposed.
Read also: ‘Worrying’ change in law may increase late-term abortions, Church of England warns by Madeline Davies, Church Times
Children raped? No interest. But yes, go ahead and kill babies and the elderly
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