Remove clause decriminalising abortions from the Crime and Policing Bill

Background

This clause currently means it will be legal for women to perform their own abortions for any reason including sex-selective purposes at any point up to and during birth.

Additional details

We think this will increase infant death, leave women open to harm and coercion and results from a process with no weighty public consultation. This clause signals a huge change by our legislature and therefore on the country itself, and that its success appears bureaucratic rather than democratic. I cannot find an explicit manifesto pledge from any major party to enact such change upon getting into power. No public consultation has taken place on this clause. It was debated for only 46 minutes in the Commons, which in my view, to quote Monckton does not allow time for "any evidence, scrutiny, public consultation or impact assessment”.

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