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British Parliament takes the first step towards late legalization Abortion Tuesday in England and Wales.
In a vote of 379-137, the House of Commons approved amendments to the broader crime bill to prevent women from being prosecuted for abortions after legal restrictions and potentially passing birth. Current laws prohibit abortions after 24 weeks, unless in certain circumstances (such as the mother’s life).
labor Members of Parliament Tonia Antoniazzi, who proposed the amendment, said the change was necessary for more than 100 women to investigate allegedly illegal abortions over the past five years.
like Associated Press“This legislation will only remove women from the criminal justice system because they are vulnerable and need our help,” she said. “What public interest is this? It’s not justice, it’s cruel and must end.”
The British Parliament voted in favor of the amendment to legalize abortion in 24 weeks. (Photo taken by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images)
Changes in the laws implemented during Lenovo 19 now make British women available Abortion pills by email Use within the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. This has led to several instances in which women were prosecuted for illegal access to abortion pills to terminate their pregnancy after 24 weeks or more.
A three-year-old mother, a woman, was sentenced to two years in prison for medical abortion within eight months in 2023. A month later, the Court of Appeal reduced her sentence and was released. The judge said the case demanded “compassion, not punishment” and that imprisonment for her had no useful purpose.
(The legal changes implemented during 199 have allowed women to obtain abortion medications by email.)
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Alithea Williams of the British Association for the Protection of Unborn Children condemns vote In the statement.
“We are afraid that members of Congress will vote for this extreme and barbaric proposal. If that clause becomes law, women who miscarriage babies at any time of pregnancy, even at any time before birth will not commit a criminal offense,” Williams said. “In fact, by dismissing the Infant Life Protection Act, which aims to provide legal protection for children during birth, a woman who kills babies during childbirth will not commit a crime.”
“This is driven by the cynical use of the situation they bring,” she added. “The cases where they use women to be prosecuted for abortion (one of the single number) emerged due to the policies they advocated – dispatching women’s abortion drugs without an in-person appointment.”
Advocates of the biological population believe that legal persecution for women with late miscarriages is largely due to women taking abortion pills obtained by email. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
Another amendment would prohibit medical professionals from being prosecuted for helping women with abortion, but no vote was received.
The crime bill now has to go through the House of Commons before it can go to the House of Lords. It can be delayed there, but it won’t block it.
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Alexa Moutevelis of the Associated Press and Fox News contributed to the report.
