British Home of Lords Votes for Abortions As much as Delivery

Baroness Monckton’s amendment (424) to overturn the extreme abortion up to birth clause 208 was rejected by Peers who voted 185 to 148 against it; and Baroness Stroud’s amendment (425) to reinstate in-person consultations with a medical professional prior to an abortion taking place at home was also rejected by Peers who voted 191 to 119 against it.

Amendment to overturn abortion up to birth clause rejected

Earlier this evening, Peers rejected amendment 424, which Baroness Monckton, along with other female Members of the House of Lords, tabled at Report Stage, that would have removed clause 208 from the Crime and Policing Bill.

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The clause that amendment 424 was seeking to remove would result in one of the most significant changes to abortion legislation since 1967, when abortion was first made legal. As part of the Bill, the clause will make it more likely that healthy babies are aborted at home for any reason, up to birth.

The clause would change the law so it would 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.

If this Bill becomes law, it will likely lead to a significant increase in the number of women performing late-term abortions at home, endangering the lives of many more women.

Polling shows that 89% of the general population and 91% of women agree that gender-selective abortion should be explicitly banned by the law – and only 1% of women support introducing abortion up to birth.

Another poll shows that more than half of the general public agrees that it should remain the case that a woman is breaking the law if she has an abortion of a healthy baby after the current 24-week legal time limit up until birth. Only 16% disagreed.

The introduction of the clause to the Crime and Policing Bill caused a major backlash, which included 91% of 28,000 respondents to a poll run by The Telegraph saying they were opposed to the extreme law change that would be introduced by clause 208.

Additional information on this amendment is available below this press release.

Amendment to reinstate in-person consultations with a medical professional prior to an abortion taking place at home – rejected

Peers also rejected amendment 425, tabled by Baroness Stroud, along with other female Peers, which would have protected women by reinstating in-person consultations with a medical professional before abortion pills can be prescribed. Baroness Stroud is the Chair of the Low Pay Commission and co-founder of the Centre for Social Justice.

Polling shows widespread public support for the law change proposed by Baroness Stroud’s amendment, with two-thirds of women supporting the reinstatement of in-person appointments and only 4% in favour of the status quo.

Baroness Stroud previously warned of the dangers of allowing at-home abortions before the policy was made permanent in March 2022 – many of those dangers have, sadly, since occurred.

Additional information on this amendment is available at the end of this press release.

Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said:

“The abortion up to birth clause is one of the most extreme pieces of legislation ever to pass the House of Commons and the House of Lords. It is a travesty that such an enormous and terrible legislative change, which will directly endanger the lives of unborn babies well beyond the point at which they would be able to survive outside the womb, as well as the lives of their mothers, has been allowed to happen”.

“This change was only made possible after pro-abortion MPs hijacked a government Bill to rush through this radical and seismic change to our abortion laws after just 46 minutes of backbench debate and a late-night debate in the Lords as the Government sought to rush through the final clauses of its Crime and Policing Bill before the end of the parliamentary session”.

“Tonight’s vote means there will be no legal deterrent against a woman inducing her own abortion right up to full-term for any reason, including sex-selective abortions. A civilised society does not permit abortion up to birth”.

“There is no public appetite for this change, and it was not part of the Government’s manifesto”.

“There are now 300,000 abortions every year in this country. Britain’s abortion time limit is already double that of the most common abortion limit among EU countries. And yet Parliament has just voted for even fewer safeguards for women and fewer protections for the unborn, even late in pregnancy”.

“The law change will also likely lead to the lives of many more women being endangered because of the risks involved with self-administered late-term abortions”.

“The abortion lobby is pushing to decriminalise abortion to cover up the disastrous effects of its irresponsible pills by post scheme, which endangers women by removing the requirement for in-person consultations before abortion pills may be prescribed”.

“The solution is clear. It remains the case that we should urgently reinstate in-person appointments. This simple safeguard would help prevent women’s lives from being put at risk from self-administered late-term abortions, a danger that would be exacerbated if abortion were ‘decriminalised’ right up to birth”.

LifeNews Note: Republished with permission from Right to Life UK.