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These amendments are definitely probing, but they were not debated in the other place. The equality impact assessment says that a pregnant woman who also meets the eligibility criteria would not be excluded from the process. The EHRC, in its additional letter, which was sent in November to the noble and learned Lord, Lord Hope, who chaired the Select Committee, referred to the equality impact assessment and said that it lacked information in this area. I ask the noble and learned Lord: how does this Bill interact with the Abortion Act? Recognising that there may be conscientious objections in one part of this process, we cannot assume that someone’s view on abortion is the same as their view on assisted dying.