Appalling. Ths start of the piece:
“An amendment that would effectively decriminalise all abortion has been tabled in the UK parliament and is being supported by over 50 cross-party MPs.
Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi [J4MB: Ms Antoniazzi won nine caps as a prop forward for the Wales women’s national rugby union team, and In the 2020 Labour leadership election she nominated Jess Phillips] tabled the amendment to the government’s crime and policing bill to remove women from “criminal law related to abortion”, meaning that “no offence is committed by a woman acting in relation to her own pregnancy”.
If passed, abortion (including all abortions up to birth in any circumstances) would no longer be criminalised under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 or the Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929.
Attempting to justify her proposed amendment, Antoniazzi claimed it was “necessary” because of the recent rise in prosecutions of women for alleged illegal abortions.
“We’ve seen a sharp rise in the number of women and girls facing criminal investigations following pregnancy loss and abortion”, Antoniazzi said. “It’s just wrong to put women in this situation, to put them into the criminal justice system, because this is not a criminal law issue, this is essentially a healthcare matter…”
The amendment would permit women to kill their unborn children up to the point of natural birth, including by obtaining abortion pills by post if they deceive the providers of the pills as to how long they’ve been pregnant. The end of the piece:
“Before Antoniazzi’s amendment was tabled last week, MP Stella Creasy wrote in the Guardian that she supported what would be the most radical pro-abortion legislation since the 1967 Abortion Act:
“This week we will lay an alternative amendment to the policing bill that doesn’t just repeal the antiquated criminal law and free women from the threat of prosecution. It also puts in place a plan for what happens next – an explicit human rights framework to ensure safe access and prevent the rolling back of abortion rights, whoever is in power.” [J4MB emphasis.]
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