Diana Johnson and Stella Creasy have tabled amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill that would make extreme changes to our abortion laws.
How would they change the law?
Both amendments would make it more likely that healthy babies are aborted at home for any reason, up to birth.
Diana Johnson’s amendment (NC1) would remove offences that make it illegal for a woman to perform her own abortion at any point right through to birth.
Stella Creasy’s amendment (NC40) would remove key deterrents against performing an abortion at any point right through to birth.
These amendments would likely lead to a significant increase in the number of women performing late-term abortions at home, endangering the lives of many more women. They would also lead to an increased number of viable babies’ lives being ended well beyond the 24-week abortion time limit and beyond the point at which they would be able to survive outside the womb.
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Stella Creasy’s amendment would also remove key deterrents against hiding the body of a dead baby. These deterrents are in place to help prevent individuals from obstructing an investigation into the cause of a child’s death when infanticide is suspected.
In addition, Stella Creasy’s amendment would also remove key safeguards provided by the Abortion Act through to 24 weeks. Abortion would be available on demand, for any reason, up to 24 weeks.
Sex-selective abortion would become legal – women could obtain, and abortion providers could perform, abortions for sex-selective purposes up to 24 weeks.
The legal safeguard requiring two qualified doctors to approve an abortion would be removed, the legal requirement that abortions take place under the care of a qualified doctor would be removed and there would be no restrictions on where abortions could be performed.
There would be no legal deterrent against women performing their own abortions at home using abortion pills up to 24 weeks, beyond the current 10-week legal limit for at-home abortions. This would present a grave risk to women’s health.
LifeNews Note: Republished with permission from Right to Life UK.
