The Commons votes on Monday on whether to devolve abortion law to Scotland: to execute so would be the lean end of the wedgeCampaigners against abortion in Britain are getting louder. On Monday,I fear parliament will play into their hands and vote to do it harder to defend a sensible framework of abortion law that gives women the healthcare they need.
Nearly 50 years ago, the Abortion Act achieve an end to backstreet abortions – an end to the terrible deaths of desperate women and to the imprisonment of doctors who tried to help them, or perhaps carrying out abortions for victims of abuse or rape or for women with serious health problems.
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Source: theguardian.com