Following on from the blog post on hybrid embryo’s another free vote is taking place in the British parliament but this time it is about whether to reduce the time limit on abortions in the UK. The current limit is 24 weeks into pregnancy.
MPs will be voting to either leave the limit as it is or, as some expect, bring the limit down to 22 weeks. This is seen as a compromise against the 20 week limit that some want. But others are wanting an even lower limit, much lower, at 12 weeks.
I have to throw my hat in the argument at this point and say that I am for the 12 week limit but still am for choice. I do not think that abortions should be banned outright. The health risks with that were proven time and again before abortion was legalised.
Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, who put forward the amendment to change the abortion laws, said she believed the right of a woman to choose had its limits.
She said: “If a baby feels pain as part of a barbaric abortion process – which is what happens post-20 weeks – and if we know that baby could live if it was allowed to be born, then there comes the point when that baby has rights which are of equal parity to the mother’s.”
Does she have a legitimate argument? In my eyes yes she does. This is why I would prefer the 12 week limit. Of course you must take into account that there would be legal abortions at a later time due to the health of the mother.
Yet we do have to take into account the plea of the possible father in these matters – one thing that is being debated in parliament:
They are currently debating a plan to say IVF clinics should need evidence of “supportive parenting”, rather than focusing on the need for a father.
This obviously opens IVF treatment to same sex couples who want a child and are finding it difficult to adopt a child.
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4 users commented in " Free Vote on Abortion "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI cannot reconcile that life does not begin with conception. I believe that the media has calcified
the hearts of abortion advocates by not refraining
the basic humanity of man to sustain life rather than kill it. Abiding abortion as public policy simply because soulless miscreants they govern stifle natures inherent respect for life is, to me, analogous to adopting abortion because we simple lack the incentive of a moral character to
ban it! Abortion is evil because my nature tells me that it is and no law can change that!
Read Psalm 139 and weep. Lord forgive us.
I totally agree that abortion is the killing of a life and no one has the right to take it, “not even the mother/father”. How sad this is that we have come to this that now it is a, “Womans choice” to keep or kill it.
Yet, they are the ones that will vote on kill the man/woman that kills a kisnapped child. Something is very wrong with this picture.
How about if we treat every one equel, “Take a life then take your life”? Seems fare to me…
That’s thier choice for the seed they sow…
I totally agree that abortion is the killing of a life and no one has the right to take it, “not even the mother/father”.
How sad this is that we have come to this that now it is a, “Womans Choice” to keep or kill her baby, Yet they are the ones that will vote on tsking the life of a the man/woman that kills a kidnapped child. Something is very wrong with this picture.
How about if we treat every one equel, “Take a life then we take your life”? Seems fare to me…
I say to those that, thats your choice for the seed you sow, now grow up and deal with it…
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