A leading pro-abortion MP has signaled his intention to hijack Government legislation to introduce pre-birth abortion in the UK.
Following the Opening of State Parliament last week, Labor MP for Walthamstow Stella Creasy announced on X (formerly known as Twitter) that he intends to amend the law set out in the King’s Speech to decriminalize abortion, which would introduce abortion up to birth.
He said: “The government has told us that decriminalizing abortion requires backbench amendments to test the will of the house.”
“The Kings Speech contains legislation that will allow us to do that.”
The abortion lobby shows its true colors
In July this year, pro-abortion MP, Maria Miller, introduced his Offenses Against the Person Act 1861 (Sentencing Guidelines) Bill in Parliament, positioning it in his speech as a proposal to prevent prison sentences for women, like Carla Foster, who do their own late-terms abortion.
Maria Miller stated that Sir Peter Bottomley, Harriet Harman, Caroline Nokes, Sarah Champion, Wera Hobhouse, Tracey Crouch, Caroline Dinenage, Matt Warman, Christine Jardine, Nickie Aiken and Theo Clarke have also put their names to the Bill.
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In a surprise development, Stella Creasy MP, who usually leads pro-abortion campaigning in Parliament, rose to give a speech making it clear that she and the abortion lobby oppose the Bill. In his speech, he said that Maria Miller’s Bill would not serve the larger goal of the abortion lobby, to make the Abortion Act redundant by repealing the underlying criminal law, stating that “the sentencing view is directly opposed to the call for decriminalization”.
Abortion to birth
Abortion advocates are campaigning to completely ‘decriminalize’ abortion.
In England and Wales, this involved repealing sections 58 and 59 of the Offenses Against the Person Act with the Fetal Life Preservation Act.
As the Abortion Act 1967 was passed to create exemptions to 58 and 59 of the Offenses Against the Person Act together with the Infant Life Preservation Act, repealing this law would make the Abortion Act 1967 redundant in England and Wales.
This change in the law will remove the current 24-week time limit for abortion, and abortion will be available on demand, for any reason, until birth. The maximum time limit will be completely removed.
Abortion provider BPAS, which campaigned for this law change, has made it explicit that it is campaigning to remove all gestational time limits for abortion.
This position was adopted by its then CEO, Ann Furedi, who launched a campaign to ‘decriminalize’ abortion stated“I want to be very clear and blunt … there should be no legal upper limit”.
70% of women favor a reduction in time limits
This proposal is completely inconsistent with the position of women on the issue. Voting from Savanta ComRes on whether time limits for abortion showed that only 1% of women in Great Britain wanted to extend the time limit beyond 24 weeks and 1% wanted it to increase until birth, in contrast to 70% of women favored a reduction in time limits.
Right To Life UK spokeswoman Catherine Robinson said: “’Decriminalisation’ means legalizing abortion up to birth and its supporters are absolutely clear about this. A civilized society does not set mothers against their own children especially in the moments before their children are born. There is no real difference between a baby one month before birth and one month after birth”.
“Abortion until birth is barbaric and we must do everything we can to make sure our MPs know we don’t want such legislation”.
LifeNews Note: Republished with permission from Right to Life UK.
