Labour Row Brewing Over Abortion Amendments

Tomorrow, the Commons will debate whether to “decriminalise” abortion in England and Wales. Two Labour-led amendments are at the heart of a brewing row…

Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi has put forward an amendment that would allow abortion for any reason up to birth but maintain criminal sanctions for doctors performing late-term or sex-selective procedures, while Stella Creasy’s calls for full decriminalisation in all circumstances.[…] Read the rest