Christian advocacy group CARE has urged people to contact members of the House of Lords and to hope in a bid to forestall “dangerous” laws that can effectively allow abortion as much as the purpose of birth.
Over the following couple of weeks the House of Lords will likely be debating the Crime and Policing Bill. The Bill took on greater significance last 12 months when an amendment that removes any criminal sanctions for abortion was passed by MPs.
Critics have questioned whether a bill that ostensibly is alleged to be about keeping Britain’s streets secure and stopping terrorism, is the proper medium for a debate on the bounds of abortion.
It has also been argued that by removing all criminal sanction, the bill would incentivise women to perform their very own abortions beyond the present 24 week legal limit. After years of warning in regards to the horrors of “back street abortions”, critics say pro-abortion advocates may actually bring the nation back to those days.
As a working example, the “pills by post” scheme has already been criticised resulting from the abuses that may occur when there may be little or no medical oversight over an abortion. Introduced during Covid, the scheme allows women to acquire abortion pills remotely and without the necessity for an in-person medical assessment.
In at the very least one case, a lady obtained and took the pills at a really late stage in her pregnancy, tragically ending the lifetime of her unborn baby and putting herself in danger in addition to breaking the law. In one other case a person was sent to jail after secretly spiking his pregnant girlfriend’s drink with abortion pills. She lost what would have been her first baby and has since been unable to conceive again.
CARE identified that no impact assessment into the results of the change has been conducted and that MPs passed this highly contentious amendment after just 46 minutes of debate.
The group said it was supporting a proposed amendment that may restore the requirement that those looking for abortion pills have an in-person medical consultation. This, they said, would help discover cases where women are being coerced or are in “visible distress”.
Caroline Ansell, CARE’s director of advocacy and policy, asked supporters to jot down to members of the House of Lords debating the problem and “to encourage them to talk out against these dangerous measures”.
“And allow us to proceed to hope that God would have mercy on our nation, as we try to create a society where the voiceless are advocated for and the powerless are protected,” she added.
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