A significant attempt to undo a controversial clause allowing abortion up to birth was mounted in the UK Parliament this week.
Pro-life peers Baroness Monckton and Baroness Stroud pressed their case in the House of Lords by tabling amendments – supported by other peers – to overturn the highly controversial abortion up to birth amendment known as clause 191 to the Crime and Policing Bill, and to reinstate in-person consultations with a medical professional prior to an abortion taking place.
The controversial clause in question, slipped into the wider Bill focused on crime and policing, would remove the criminal penalties for women undertaking abortions at any gestational stage, thereby bypassing medical oversight and effectively permitting at-home late terminations without in-person consultation.
