Member

Clause 191 and these amendments will not in any way change abortion time limits or provisions as we have heard, and nor should they. What the clause will do is stop very vulnerable young women and girls getting hounded by the state for ending a pregnancy. I am a great fan of the noble Baroness, Lady Monckton—we have spoken together in debates before, particularly on special educational needs—but I was shocked at the comparison between a foetus and slavery. The tone of that was wrong, given what slave women went through: their children were often ripped away from them before they were even separated from the umbilical cord. I ask her to reflect on those comments.