MPs to vote on abortion limit cut

[Admin]

MPs are set to vote on the issue of whether to reduce the abortion time limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks or less.

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[Muffin2]

PARTY!!!!!!!!!!! it was rejected, thank god.
my faith in the government has marginally been restored.

JUDY MALLABER - LABOUR MP
"I dread the idea that we might go backwards. I dread the idea that we might force women, against their moral views, into a possibility where they are forced to bear a child, to go through a pregnancy in a situation in which they might feel desperate."


i think that quote just about sums up my feelings

[Victoria09]

phew... I thought for a while there they might at least vote on cutting it to 22 weeks and slowly chip away at women's fertility rights that way. At last I have one single positive thing to say about Gordon Brown as PM (even though the b***ard doubled my income tax for a couple of months, but hey)

[Muffin2]

yeah so did i. but when they rejected the bill to stop hybrid embryos i had a small hope they'd reject the abortion cut as well. thanks heavens they did.

defeated by 332 to 190, at least we know there are 332 intelligent people in parliament :P