Abortion right uo to term

[medsec222]

I am quite shocked at the speed at which this amendment went through Parliament. Women have the right to choose and they have up to 24 weeks to make their choice. Decriminalising aborting a baby at nine months of age is legalised murder. Plenty of MPs spoke up in support of of women who have aborted their child at nine months and are awaiting criminal prosecution and how stressful it is for those women, but what about the right of the unborn child.

[jenniren]

I agree Medsec.

[TheOstrich]

If I understand it correctly, Medsec, medical or clinic terminations still have to follow the old 24-week rules, and this amendment decriminalises very late self-abortions mainly by pregnant women buying pills online and circumventing the medical profession. The argument seems to be that such women must be "desperate and vulnerable" to take such a step, therefore shouldn't be prosecuted?

Personally, I don't agree with this new law, as it seems to me that it's giving a green light to what is effectively infanticide. A 24-week foetus is these days viable; even abortion at that stage seems wrong to me. But that's just my 2p worth ....

[Kaz]

Abortion over 24 weeks should really only be in extreme life-or-death cases, for either mother or baby I think the case which was behind the change in the law was a very sad one - a 40yr old woman, thinking she was.around 10 weeks obtained abortion pills online, but in what must have been a horrific experience she delivered.a six month foetus in her bathroom. She went to hospital, along with the poor little mite which was dead of course, and the nurses called the police, as obliged by law. She went to court earlier this year, but should never have been prosecuted, in my opinion

Actually I find the idea of DIY abortions with pills at home like this really worrying. I had a "missed" miscarriage and was told to go home and let nature take its course. Well that very nearly killed me as I had a haemorrhage at home and went into hypovolemic shock Surely even the small risk of this happening is not worth taking