British parliament takes first step toward decriminalizing late-term abortions

The British parliament took the first step toward decriminalizing late-term abortions in England and Wales on Tuesday In a - vote the House of Commons approved an amendment to a broader crime bill to prevent women from being prosecuted for having abortions after the legal limit potentially through birth The current law prohibits abortions after weeks except under specific circumstances such as the life of the mother Labour Member of Parliament Tonia Antoniazzi who introduced the amendment stated the change was necessary on behalf of the more than women investigated over the last five years for suspected illegal abortions As quoted by the Associated Press she noted This piece of ordinance will only take women out of the criminal justice system because they are vulnerable and they need our help Antoniazzi added Just what society interest is this serving This is not justice it is cruelty and it has got to end INFLUENCING NEAR UK ABORTION FACILITIES CRIMINALIZED AS GOV PLANS TO ROLL OUT NATIONWIDE BUFFER ZONES Changes in the law implemented during the COVID- pandemic now allow UK women to receive abortion pills through the mail for use within the first weeks of pregnancy That has led to several instances in which women were prosecuted for obtaining abortion pills illegally to terminate pregnancies after weeks or more One woman a mother of three was sentenced to two years in prison for medically inducing an abortion around her eight-month mark in An appeals court reduced her sentence a month later and she was circulated The judge announced that occurrence called for compassion not punishment and there was no useful purpose in jailing her CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE OF MEDIA AND CULTUREAlithea Williams of the UK Society for the Protection of Unborn Children condemned the vote in a message We are horrified that MPs have voted for this extreme and barbaric proposal If this clause becomes law a woman who aborts her baby at any point in pregnancy even moments before birth would not be committing a criminal offence Williams announced In fact by dismissing the Infant Life Preservation Act intended to provide legal protection to a child during birth a woman who killed her baby during delivery would not be committing an offence And this has been pushed by an abortion lobby cynically exploiting a situation that they brought about she added The cases they use of women being prosecuted for abortion a number in the single digits came about because of a protocol they championed sending women abortion pills in the post without in person appointments Another amendment would have prohibited biological professionals from being prosecuted for helping a woman obtain an abortion but it did not get a vote The crime bill must now pass through the House of Commons before proceeding to the House of Lords It can be delayed there but not blocked CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP