Labour manifesto missing pledge on abortion law vote to stop women being jailed
Labour manifesto missing pledge on abortion law vote to stop women being jailed
At least three more women are being prosecuted for terminating their own pregnancies after Carla Foster was jailed for the offence last year
It's also missing the pledge to not arrest people for eating bacon. Can we please get away from this ridiculous American style politics.
What a weird article. It talks as if abortion is illegal in the UK. It is not illegal.
I think it's talking about at what point in the pregnancy abortion is allowed. I think most would agree that there is a point at which elective abortion should be off the table (e.g. would anybody argue for an abortion to be allowed the day before birth?). So the debate is about when that point is. A fair debate, but articles like this don't help.
the only reason it would ever be performed a day before birth is because the pregnant person would die otherwise so yes there should be no limits on when it's off the table
So because there’s moral limits to when it would “ever be performed”, there should be no legal limits to when it would ever be performed? Surely by that logic we don’t need laws against murder either, after all, that would be immoral and sometimes you have to kill people in self defence, so murder laws just get in the way.
This coming from a pro choice person, I do think there’s a good justification for allowing later abortions, but as the previous poster said, it’s not helpful to pretend there’s no complexity or that there should be no limits at all.