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Jennifer Hargreaves's avatar

This law is abhorrent. As a former nurse I know these little babies are viable at 24 weeks (with a little TLC). The thought that a 'woman', a potential 'mother' can take this step, so late, makes me livid and sick.

How will this little soul be murdered?

What will they do with the little body? Cremate? Donate? Put it in 'hazard waste'?

Any women who waits soo long to make such a decision should be shot. Jail is too kind.

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george hancock's avatar

I didn’t link this infanticide to gender selection but Peter is right over religions using this abominable law change to dispose of live babies as a means of sex selection.

Also what happens to the babies bodies?

A convenient supply of body parts for recycling? Those with money and ill health will be delighted.

Life is cheap.

This decision devalues life.

The young, the most vulnerable in society have seen their existence devalued, yet again.

Murdering them is evil.

Parliament is evil.

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Orak's avatar

The body-part snatch for cash is something I've pondered for years. I was always of the mindset of: okay, let them do abortions but the corpses MUST be cremated instantly. No financial gain. No stem cells harvested for research. Nothing. No profits to make. And ultra-stiff prison sentences for infringement.

And then see how fast the lobby groups - and undoubtedly the people funding them - vanish.

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Giles Moger's avatar

This wasn't Creasy's amendment. Her's was to make abortion a human right, which was too rich even for for this bloodthirsty parliament, and wasn't called. We have MP for Gower, Tonia Antoniazzi, to thank instead.

I believe this amendment and the assisted dying act (should it pass today) will end up being repealed and rolled back further.

The days of delegating moral questions to a sensible elite have passed. Today's elites exist in a hollowed out, decadent, moral vacuum. People see this and are going to stop delegating these questions to progressive ghouls. These are going to become more salient political issues.

Creasy wants to politicise everything. She will come to regret that given the disconnect between the average voter and her extremist position.

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Richard Bevan's avatar

This has been an agenda of incremental legislative shift for 150 years. It has always been presented as progressive; on the side of poor downtrodden women, since it's inception by Charles Bradlaugh and Annie Besant in the late 1800's.

Those with the time and inclination to conduct a deep dive on Bradlaugh and Besant, will discover they were Theosophists, Malthusians, Fabians and Freemasons, who had the financial and legal backing to swat away any potential challenges to their plans. Nothing much has changed in that respect.

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Paul Fazakerley's avatar

I also agree to abortion on the grounds that you have stated.

With the previous law and the change of attitude of the western population over the last 25 years, from child bearing families to working and enjoy life families, we now have mass immigrant to plug the hole in the declining population.

Look what happened to Rome.

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John Sampson's avatar

To oppose such legislation one needs a basis for morals. We cannot fight something with nothing. And today we will take the first step to killing ourselves as well as our children. The House of Commons car park has spaces for broomsticks.

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Jay_Bee54's avatar

Universal suffrage and representative democracy are shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave.

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Iris February's avatar

In the days of easily obtainable contraception how is it necessary to abort so late?

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Paul Cassidy's avatar

Logic would delete the last two words?

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Peter Meiring's avatar

A good article. I don’t understand the lack of logic in so many MPs heads. Rape gangs are heinous - and MPs seem to have belatedly come to that conclusion.

It is an extreme form of child abuse.

But what then is killing babies - if not an extreme form of child abuse?

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Penelope's avatar

On Friday, parliament voted in favour of assisted suicide. A very dark week in Westminster.

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Martin T's avatar

Parliament has at least done us a favour by showing us who is in charge and what it thinks of us.

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In the beginning...'s avatar

Empty vessels make the most noise.

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Tom Welsh's avatar

Aren’t they all?

And by the way - isn’t that racist language?

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