Thu Mar 17, 2022 – 3:22 pm EDT
WESTMINSTER, England (LifeSiteNews) — Members of Britain’s House of Lords voted Wednesday night to make permanent “dangerous” at-home abortions in England and Wales.
An amendment to the Health and Care Bill currently making its way through the U.K. Parliament would alter the 1967 Abortion Act to allow for women to procure the two drugs used to kill a child in the womb from their homes, following a telephone or online consultation with a physician.
As part of myriad measures introduced on the back of COVID-related lockdowns in 2020, the government introduced the controversial “pills by post” scheme for women seeking abortions in the U.K., provided they had a consultation with a doctor by phone or video call and were under ten weeks pregnant.
The legislation was passed on March 30, 2020, with a built-in expiration date of two years.
With the legislation set to terminate later this month an amendment to extend the provision indefinitely passed by 75 votes to 35, sending the bill back to the House of Commons for a vote in the coming weeks.
Speaking in the House of Lords last night, Baroness Sugg, who
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