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MPs will tonight vote on whether to cut the 24-week abortion limit. However, anti-abortion campaigners believe that their best chance of getting the Commons to vote against 24 weeks – which has been the upper limit since 1990 - will come when MPs consider an amendment suggesting 20 weeks as an...
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Nadine Dorries' campaign has already succeeded
Nadine Dorries MP has to wait a few more hours before she'll learn if her fellow MPs will vote for a lower limit on abortion. Regardless of how MPs vote our belief is that Nadine has already succeeded to a considerable extent. Her campaign - which has been featured by every major broadcaster and...
British lawmakers debate changing abortion law
London: British lawmakers could vote on Tuesday to lower the 24 week time limit for women to terminate a pregnancy in what would be the first major change to abortion laws here in nearly 20 years. The wide-ranging bill would also give lesbians easier access to IVF treatment by removing...
MPs to vote on abortion time limit
MPs will tonight vote on whether to cut the 24-week abortion limit. However, anti-abortion campaigners believe that their best chance of getting the Commons to vote against 24 weeks – which has been the upper limit since 1990 - will come when MPs consider an amendment suggesting 20 weeks as an...
MPs vote on abortion limit
MPS vote today on the time limit for abortion, after approving plans for human-animal embryos. They will have a free vote on the highly emotive issue of reducing the limit from 24 weeks. An amendment calls for a change in the law to reduce the limit to 20 weeks. But there have been calls for the...
MPs to vote on abortion limit cut
MPs are to vote on the emotive issue of cutting the abortion time limit on the second day of debates on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. On Monday night a cross-party attempt to ban hybrid human animal embryos was defeated on a free vote, by 336 to 176.
No sign of abortion amendment
Our four main party leaders have signed a letter condemning it, and our four main church leaders have backed them, but today, as MPs debate the time limits for abortion, there is no sign of any Westminster amendment intended to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. Yesterday the...
After allowing stem cells, British MPs vote on abortion
By Dipankar De Sarkar. London, England, 04:39 PM IST British MPs were Tuesday voting on whether to cut the upper time-limit for abortions after overturning an attempt to ban cutting-edge medical research. MPs Monday night defeated amendments seeking to ban hybrid human-animal embryos needed for...
No, I Do Not Respect Religious Belief.
Jackie Ashley and Gordon Brown - while defending embryo research and the current abortion limit, still think we should respect religious people who distort the evidence to try and get the law changed. I don't.Why should we respect people who have so little regard for the truth and who try to...
British MPs to vote on abortion limits
MPs at Westminster will vote this evening on whether or not to reduce the upper 24-week time limit for a legal abortion in Britain. Last night they voted to allow the creation of hybrid human-animal embryos for medical research. Around 200,000 legal abortions are carried out on women in Britain...
Bill considers abortion curbs
Last Modified: 20 May 2008 By: Sue Turton The Commons debate on the embryo bill today moves on to discuss two key areas for women's rights campaigners. Women's rights campaigners are joining gay groups in pressing for the removal of the requirement for fertility clinics to consider the need for...
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