Member

When we were discussing this matter in Committee, the noble and learned Baroness, Lady Butler-Sloss, as ever, raised the key question: what will happen if we do not continue to criminalise women who do this? We have two lots of evidence that we can point to. One line of evidence goes back to what happened after 1961: there was no significant increase in suicide in this country. The noble Baroness, Lady Lawlor, said that when you change the law, you change the behaviour, but the evidence for that is not there.