Member

I raise one final matter before I conclude. I acknowledge—and this is, I know, a concern to many of your Lordships—that the amendment does not prevent an inquiry into the circumstances of a late-term abortion. I recognise that such an investigation will be inevitably distressing, but such a process is inevitable in all cases where a potential breach of the law is involved. Of course, the investigation must be done with sensitivity, in the same way as inquiries of a rape victim should be conducted with sensitivity, but that consideration standing alone should not frustrate our duty to protect the life of an unborn child.