: Oppose Decriminalising Abortion
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SPUC’s campaign against decriminalising abortion
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Decriminalising abortion means:
- Taking abortion outside the law and effectively removing all legal protection for unborn children and their mothers.
- Making abortion available at any time in pregnancy and for any reason.
- Leaving women vulnerable to the unscrupulous abortion industry in our country.
- Opening up dangerous legal home abortions.
Key arguments against decriminalisation:
- Decriminalisation is completely unnecessary.
- Proposals for decriminalisation are anti-democratic.
- Abortion is not like ‘any other medical treatment’.
- Abortion is bad healthcare for women.
The threat of decriminalisation: In March 2017 the House of Commons voted by 172 votes to 142 to permit Diana Johnson, Labour MP for Kingston upon Hul...
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