The Federalist By Jordan Boyd
The same country that has repeatedly weaponized its anti-free speech laws to prosecute Christians for praying silently near abortion facilities went to great lengths this week to permit abortion through all nine months of pregnancy.
The House of Commons overwhelmingly voted on Tuesday to pass an amendment that would legalize abortion until birth across England and Wales. According to Right To Life UK, members of Parliament “hijacked” a Crime and Policing Bill “to rush through a seismic and unpopular change to abortion law after just two hours’ debate.”
Until now, the U.K. technically allowed elective abortions up to 24 weeks gestation, as long as two doctors agree continuing the pregnancy will harm the woman or her existing children’s mental or physical health — a vague and sweeping provision that the hundreds of thousands of U.K. abortions each year prove is easily met. The Abortion Act 1967 also permitted the abortion of unborn babies who, while still in the womb, are deemed at high risk for “physical or mental abnormalities” or to be “seriously handicapped” if they are born.
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