A Bill to establish a government advisory committee to study and establish the development of unborn children has progressed in the House of Lords.

Lord Moylan’s Foetal Sentience Committee Bill, which intends to create a committee to act as a source of evidence-based scientific expertise on the sentience of unborn babies in accord with developments in medical knowledge, received its Second Reading yesterday.

There was no division, as is the convention in the Lords, and the Bill will now proceed onto Committee Stage.