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WESTMINSTER, England (LifeSiteNews) – A proposed amendment to Britain’s Health and Care Bill, which would have removed existing restrictions on abortion has failed in Parliament.
Staunchly pro-abortion MP Diana Johnson tabled an amendment to the Health and Care Bill, New Clause 50, which, if successful, would have meant that penalties associated with the procurement of abortion and the instruments used, including ordering online abortion pills, would “not apply to a woman in relation to the procurement of her own miscarriage.”
The UK Abortion Act currently allows abortions up to 24 weeks, providing it is carried out by a registered doctor, that two doctors agree that the mother’s physical or mental health is at risk, or that the child will be seriously disabled. Abortions may also be done up to birth if the child is disabled or in certain other circumstances.
The defeated amendment, which sought to alter sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act, was not selected for debate in the chamber by the Speaker of the House of Commons Tuesday, marking the amendment’s defeat.
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