Tue Sep 13, 2022 – 9:53 am EDTTue Sep 13, 2022 – 9:56 am EDT
(Right to Life UK) – Liz Truss MP has won the Conservative leadership contest in Britain by 81,326 votes to 60,399 and has replaced Boris Johnson as prime minister.
On September 5, Truss finalized her selection of cabinet and ministerial roles, meeting the following day with the late Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral where she was appointed as the new prime minister.
Voting record on abortion and assisted suicide
Since she was first elected as an MP in 2010, Truss has either taken a pro-abortion position on votes or abstained. She has never taken a pro-life position on a vote.
Independent counselling
In 2011, she voted against introducing independent counselling for abortion.
The proposed changes regarding independent counselling would have stopped private abortion providers – who benefit financially from providing an abortion – from also providing abortion counselling. This service would have, instead, been outsourced to a third party that did not have a vested financial or ideological interest in providing abortions.
Polling from Savanta ComRes shows that there is strong public support for this change in the law, with 93 percent of women
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