MPs vote to decriminalise abortion for women in England and Wales
MPs voted to change the abortion legislation to stop the prosecution because they ended the pregnancy of women in England and Wales.
For Gower, Labor Party MP Tonia Antoniazzi pioneered the call for discrimination of 1% of the abortions that occurred 24 weeks later, and said that they were “desperate women in need of mercy, not innocence”.
As a matter of conscience, deputies were allowed to vote according to their personal beliefs, and the plan 242 votes supported the majority.
The current law in the UK and Wales states that abortion is illegal, but the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, and beyond that, permits in certain situations such as women’s life is in danger.
Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Crime and Police Law will abolish the threat of investigation, arrest, prosecution or imprisonment for late abortion.
He pointed out that approximately 99% of abortions took place before a pregnancy reached 20 weeks and left only 1% of women in “desperate conditions”.
Antoniazzi emphasized a series of cases where women were arrested for illegal abortion crimes and called on to support the deputies to realize that “these women need care and support, not to punish, but to care and support.”
“Each of these cases is a transvestite provided by our fashionable abortion law.”
“This Victorian law, which was initially accepted by a purely male parliament, is increasingly used against vulnerable women and girls.”
Stella Creasy asked why deputies want to protect the old laws in any way or form instead of learning for all our founders from the best practice worldwide.
The Walthamstow Labor Party deputy called on deputies to go further, to abandon any article about abortion 1861 and to conceal the access of abortion as human rights.
This was explicitly supported by 108 deputies before the discussion – but abortion providers, including the British pregnancy consultation service, said that the change was not the right way to obtain “generation change” and did not go to vote.
Conservative Shadow Health Minister Dr Caroline Johnson made a third change aimed at stopping the pills after abortion, asking for a pregnant woman to face face -to -face interviews before prescribing the drug to end her pregnancy.
Johnson change fell, 379 deputies voted and 117 votes.
Previously, the change of Antoniazzi gained support against 137 of 379 deputies.
