Govt will not back legal right to abortion
from CARE:
The UK Government has opposed a call for abortion to be enshrined as a legal right in new legislation that will replace the Human Rights Act.
Labour MP Stella Creasy announced yesterday that she would table an amendment to the Bill of Rights Bill to give women the ‘fundamental right to abortion’.
She was supported by fellow Labour MP Rosie Duffield, who said the government should accept a “cross-party amendment to the forthcoming bill of rights which enshrines a women’s right to choose in law”.
The move comes after the US Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade, a contentious 70s court ruling that enshrined a right to abortion in the United States.
Speaking this afternoon, Justice Secretary Dominic Raab said the position was “settled in UK law which is “decided by members across this house”, adding, “I don’t think there’s a strong case for change”.
He added: “What I would not want to do, is find ourselves, with the greatest respect, in the US position where this is being relitigated through the courts rather than settled as it is now settled.”
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