Yesterday we posted a piece titled Nigel Farage suggests MPs should debate rolling back abortion limit. Nigel comments:

“There was a Bill proposed in 2023 on this and debate about inclusion in the Criminal Justice Bill in 2024. Very clearly Nigel Farage is not espousing something new but joining his voice to the many who’d like to see this change Doctors call for MPs to support a reduction in the time limit for abortion | CARE What he has done is open a bit of a sore as members attempts to get this issue properly debated have had to contend with Ministers trying to sidestep it.

Since at least 2006 MPs have been trying to get this debated with Baroness O’Loan’s Bill Abortion (Gestational Time Limit Reduction) Bill [HL] – Parliamentary Bills – UK Parliament the latest attempt, though originating in the Lords means it is unlikely to get Commons Time. The long and tortuous history of this is a master (or perhaps mistress) class in how clever lobbying and committee work can thwart any open debates taking place. In this case from an “early day motion” in 2008!”

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