Following in Canada’s footsteps, the British parliament has voted to permit abortion up to birth. Predictable but tragic nevertheless.
A labour MP observed: “the current abortion law was “outdated”, and added: “This is not justice. It is cruelty, and it has got to end.” No thought for cruelty or injustice inflicted on the babies, the most innocent and vulnerable members of our species.
From here:
Women will no longer be prosecuted for aborting their pregnancies at any point up to birth.
MPs have voted with a majority of 242 to decriminalise seeking an abortion at any stage of gestation for any reason, which means that women will no longer face an investigation or arrest for doing so.
The framing of the issue as one of “reproductive rights” is a good example of what is known as Orwellian political abuse of language.
The extension of the acceptance of a right to decide whether or not to have children to a right to kill one in utero (or ex utero but not totally out of the vagina in the case of a “partial birth ” abortion) is a severe disturbance of thought. As is the codification in the Criminal Code of Canada that a human is not a person until parturition is complete.