Wed Mar 30, 2022 – 3:37 pm EDT
LONDON (LifeSiteNews) — England’s pro-life community has voiced dismay after Members of Parliament voted today to keep the controversial “abortion pills by post” scheme.
The measure, meant to give women in the United Kingdom access to chemical abortions at home during the COVID lockdowns, was implemented by then-Health Secretary Matt Hancock on March 30, 2020. Now, after a vote of 215 to 188, the dangerous innovation has been made permanent in England.
“It is disgusting that a healthcare bill has been hijacked to push through something that is not healthcare by any definition,” said Alithea Williams of the Society of the Preservation of Unborn Children (SPUC) in a press release.
“Instead, it is a way to end the lives of unborn children that bypasses even the few safeguards for women that the abortion law provided,” she continued. “In approving this dangerous policy, MPs have ignored evidence of its dangers, and they have ignored women.”
Williams related that 45% of the group of women who had used the “abortion pills by post” scheme during the pandemic had said during a government consultation that there were benefits in requiring at least one
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