Earlier this year, the House of Lords debated an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that would have stopped it from fully decriminalising self-induced abortions. The Archbishop of Canterbury, to her credit, spoke in favour of this amendment, and she and the nine other bishops who were present voted for it. This is good. Too few people, however, remember that her episcopal forebears had a large role in the making and passing of the Abortion Act in the first place, and so helped bring about the present nightmarish, dystopian reality in which we kill one third of children in the womb. A number of facts from the public record suggest themselves here, and may, one hopes, move – or, indeed, shame – the Archbishop and her colleagues to greater firmness on this issue.
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The Anglican bishops who made the Abortion Act possible
The history of the Abortion Act 1967 cannot be told without recognising the role Church of England bishops played in its passage
Peter Day-Milne

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