According to Right to Life UK, MP Diana Johnson has revived her extreme pro-abortion amendment that would make it legal for a woman to commit self-abortion at any point in pregnancy in the UK.
In January, two abortion-through-birth amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill were debated at the Committee stage and both were withdrawn without a vote taking place. Each amendment aimed to allow women to commit their own abortion at home without any of the regulations that are placed on abortionists, thereby allowing chemical abortion (the abortion pill) for any reason at any time.
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Pro-abortion MPs Johnson, Stella Creasy, and Jess Phillips all aid that the amendments would not necessarily change the UK’s 24-week time frame on legal abortion-on-demand, which Right To Life UK said “ignore[s] the inevitable consequences of their amendments.”
Phillips, who said abortion should be treated like “having a prostate exam,” cited an increase in prosecutions for suspected illegal abortion to justify the amendments, however, Creasy partially admitted that those charged in abortion-related prosecutions were all men who took part in a mail-order abortion plot. And a prostate exam is not what killed Christopher X and Harriett, seen below. They were killed by abortion.
Babies Christopher X and Harriett were found in a medical waste bin outside of a D.C. abortion business.
Freedom of Information Act requests show that of the 42 people arrested for illegal abortions between January 2012 and July 2022, 34 were men and the seven who were eventually charged were all men. Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Laura Farris MP, said during the debate that in the last six years, there has only been one abortion-related conviction.
After the amendments were withdrawn without a vote, Johnson brought forward a nearly identical amendment, said Right to Life UK. This amendment has yet to be voted on. According to the pro-life organization, it would also allow at-home abortion pill use throughout pregnancy for any reason.
Polling shows that only 16% of the general population thinks abortion should be decriminalized after 24 weeks of pregnancy, which the amendment would allow.
Spokesperson for Right To Life UK, Catherine Robinson, said, “This recent polling indicates that the MPs behind these extreme abortion amendments are radically out of touch with public opinion on this matter.”
Currently, the UK has a cut-off of 10 weeks for at-home abortions by the abortion pill. This is for the safety of women since the further along in pregnancy an abortion is carried out, the riskier it is for the woman. With the abortion pill specifically, an increase in gestational age is related to an increase in complications including failed abortion, the need for a follow-up second, surgical abortion, hemorrhage, and infection.
“A recent Government review of abortion complications in England between 2017 and 2021 has revealed that the complication rate for medical abortions is 160.33 times higher for abortions at 20 weeks and over when compared to medical abortions that occurred at 2 to 9 weeks. The complication rate is likely to be much higher for women performing their own abortions at home without medical supervision well beyond the current 24-week time limit,” said Robinson.
Phillips can wish that abortion were treated as nothing more than a prostate exam, but to allow this would be medically negligent. The abortion pill kills innocent human beings, carries physical risks for the unsuspecting women who take it, and causes trauma that many women have recalled. Live Action’s I Saw My Baby campaign revealed the heartbreak that is involved with having an at-home abortion and seeing the body of the baby that has been killed.
