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Dipping a toe into the abortion question

                   
dizzythinks.net
20-May-2008
        
Story Timeline:  148 days

This whole abortion debate has become very odd. Apparently it seems that if you support reducing the time limit on abortion from 24 to say 22 or 20, you are, invariably, just a secret anti-abortionist, in bed with anti-abortionists, or worse still are not being honest with scientific knowledge or... [read full story]                    

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Abortions: How your MP voted

echo-news.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

SOUTH Essex MPs were split on a decision to reduce the time limit for abortions. Proposals to lower the abortion limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks were rejected in the House of Commons by 332 votes to 190. Rayleigh MP Mark Francois voted to reduce the time limit on abortions. He said: "I was in the...

                   
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Bishop critical of abortion decision

thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

The Bishop of Bradford, whose granddaughter was born before 24 weeks, has said MPs made a mistake by not voting to reduce the time limit a woman can have an abortion. MPs on Tuesday threw out the first attempts for nearly 20 years to cut the 24-week time limit for abortions after a stormy debate....

How Lib Dem MPs voted in the abortion debate

libdemblogs.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

54 Lib Dem MPs took part in last night's crucial Commons vote on whether to reduce the current 24-week limit on abortions to 22 weeks (the closest vote of the night). In what was a free vote, a majority of the party's MPs voted against any change to the current law. Here's how they [...]

Why the abortion time limit will soon come down

spectator.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

Sadly, the abortion vote last night pretty much split down party lines with 83 percent of Tories in favour of a lower limit and 80 percent of Labour MPs supported the 24 week status quo. It would be a disaster for British politics if abortion was to become a partisan issue—imagine the Commons...

                   

Determined on termination

guardian.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

Embryo bill: The three-quarters of British women who support choice on abortion cannot afford to be complacent about their right A few days ago, I wasn't at all confident that the upper time limit for abortion - I knew that the scientific community, including the British Medical Association, the...

Northern Irish MPs back 12 week abortion limit, Tom Griffin

opendemocracy.net
21-May-2008
        

picked up a potential West Lothian issue ahead of last nights Commons vote on the Embryology Bill: One of our local MPs told me he was getting some flak from English MPs. He said they took the view that if Northern Ireland MPs wanted to interfere in the time limits for abortion in England, then...

Abortion vote: A shameful night for MPs

anglican-mainstream.net
21-May-2008
        

Damian Thompson, Daily Telegraph So infanticide remains on the statute book, then. I’m sorry if that strikes you as offensive language, but I think it’s a perfectly reasonable description of the killing of babies that stand a chance of surviving outside the womb. MPs have made a gravely immoral...

How did your MP vote? Breaking down the numbers

thefword.org.uk
21-May-2008
        

As Laura pointed out earlier today, we've won this latest battle on choice, but this is no time to rest on our laurels. We were on the defensive - and the one amendment which could have shifted the ground in favour of the pro-choice majority, ending the requirement for two doctors to sign off on...

                   

This debate won't end

guardian.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

Embryo bill: If you think the argument about abortion has ended after last night's vote, you're mistaken. I read a comment by a pro-choice doctor, who said something to the effect that: "We can draw a line under the whole question of abortion. Although the pioneering test-tube doctors, Steptoe...

                   
manchesteronline.co.uk: Have your say manchesteronline.co.uk

Bid to reduce abortion limit fails

manchesteronline.co.uk
21-May-2008
        

MOVES to cut the abortion age limit from 24 weeks were resoundingly rejected tonight by MPs after a highly-charged Commons debate. Tory-led proposals, backed by some Labour MPs including Cabinet Ministers, for new abortion limits of 12, 16, 20 or 22 weeks were all defeated in a series of free...

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