{"id":32199,"date":"2025-06-17T20:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=32199"},"modified":"2025-06-17T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T00:59:10","slug":"uk-votes-to-decriminalise-abortion-at-any-point-up-to-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/uk-votes-to-decriminalise-abortion-at-any-point-up-to-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"UK votes to decriminalise abortion at any point up to birth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following in Canada\u2019s footsteps, the British parliament has voted to permit abortion up to birth. Predictable but tragic nevertheless.<\/p>\n

A labour MP observed: \u201cthe current abortion law was \u201coutdated\u201d, and added: \u201cThis is not justice. It is cruelty, and it has got to end.\u201d <\/em>\u00a0No thought for cruelty or injustice inflicted on the babies, the most innocent and vulnerable members of our species.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"Women will no longer be prosecuted for aborting their pregnancies at any point up to birth.<\/p>\n

MPs have voted with a majority of 242\u00a0<\/strong>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following in Canada\u2019s footsteps, the British parliament has voted to permit abortion up to birth. Predictable but tragic nevertheless. A labour MP observed: \u201cthe current abortion law was \u201coutdated\u201d, and added: \u201cThis is not justice. It is cruelty, and it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}