Pro-life groups protest extreme pro-abortion amendments

A coalition of pro-life groups have protested attempts by Labour MPs Stella Creasy and Diana Johnson to transform abortion laws. 

The protest was held yesterday in Creasy’s constituency of Walthamstow by the Centre for Bio-Ethical Reform UK, Christian Concern, CitizenGo and 40 Days for Life. 

The two MPs recently introduced amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill searching for to remove offences that make it illegal to perform a self-abortion at any point all the way through to birth.

Creasy also desires to repeal Section 60 of the Offences Against the Person Act, which makes it illegal to cover the body of a dead newborn baby. 

The pro-life groups said that two MPs had “hijacked” the Criminal Justice Bill with their “extreme” amendments. 

They said it was likely that if passed, more babies will lose their lives to late-term abortions performed at home, and that the lives of ladies may even be in increased danger.

Ruth Rawlins, from CBR UK, said the protest was an act of “solidarity for babies and moms on this nation”. 

“This over-reach by these MPs is totally against public opinion. The problem is that the general public usually are not privy to it, and so it’s our responsibility to allow them to know,” she said. 

“We are destroying the abortion lobby’s deceptive framing and language of this as ‘healthcare’, with the reality: there isn’t any right to kill one other human being. We have to be a nation that protects babies each in law and in practice.”

Pauline Peachey, who had an abortion within the late Nineteen Sixties, said, “The doctor advising me on the time, told me the Abortion Act was passed specifically for girls within the situation that I used to be in.

“But I remember pondering I wish women didn’t have the burden of the alternative to kill their babies but as a substitute got the assistance to enable them to maintain their baby. Laws are essential to guard each the babies and the moms.”

Over 12,000 people have signed a CitizenGo petition calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to take motion to stop the amendments going to a vote. 

“If these extreme amendments turn out to be law, women would have a ‘right-to-kill’ their unborn babies, resulting in a devastating increase within the variety of babies’ lives being ended through late-term abortions,” the petition says.