- Dame Diana Johnson’s modification might be handed subsequent month in a historic vote
Rebel Tories are threatening to convey down the Government’s flagship legislation and order laws if it results in abortion being decriminalised.
Plenty of Conservatives are livid {that a} senior Labour determine has inserted into the Criminal Justice Bill a clause that will imply ladies may not be prosecuted for ending pregnancies after 24 weeks.
It is now extensively believed in Westminster that Dame Diana Johnson’s modification might be handed subsequent month in a historic vote, which all MPs will probably be allowed to resolve on in keeping with conscience, after outrage final 12 months over a case the place a mom was jailed for an unlawful termination.
But some Tories say that if the vote goes via, they are going to then go in opposition to the social gathering whip within the essential third studying and oppose the Bill, which covers measures to sort out crime and strengthen sentencing.
One Tory MP instructed The Mail on Sunday: ‘This is so excessive. We can’t have a state of affairs the place abortion at any stage is authorized – that is clearly a recipe for catastrophe. If we now have to, I’d think about bringing down this Bill.’
It is now extensively believed in Westminster that Dame Diana Johnson’s (pictured) modification might be handed subsequent month in a historic vote, which all MPs will probably be allowed to resolve on in keeping with conscience, after outrage final 12 months over a case the place a mom was jailed for an unlawful termination
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins (pictured) has indicated that she helps the try to repeal sections of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861
Tory MP Miriam Cates (pictured) instructed the MoS: ‘To make it lawful to finish the lifetime of a viable child proper up to date of start for no different motive than it isn’t needed is morally unsuitable’
Tory MP Miriam Cates instructed the MoS: ‘To make it lawful to finish the lifetime of a viable child proper up to date of start for no different motive than it isn’t needed is morally unsuitable.’
Her colleague Nick Fletcher added: ‘Decriminalisation of abortion will little doubt finish with abortions taking place a lot later, even up till full time period. This can’t be proper in a civilised society.’ He and others will as an alternative be backing a separate modification by Tory backbencher Caroline Ansell, which would scale back the abortion time restrict from 24 to 22 weeks.
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins has indicated that she helps the try to repeal sections of a nineteenth Century legislation.
Calls to repeal two sections of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 grew final 12 months after Carla Foster was given a 28-month sentence for acquiring abortion-inducing medicine when she was as much as 34 weeks pregnant.
But Michael Robinson, government director of pro-life group SPUC, stated: ‘Encouraging late-term self-induced abortions is harmful for girls, and reveals a sickening disregard for the best to lifetime of harmless infants.’
Catherine Robinson, of Right To Life UK, stated: ‘Perhaps Ms Atkins shouldn’t be conscious of how radical Diana Johnson’s excessive abortion modification actually is.’
Last evening authorities sources stated the Criminal Justice Bill had not but been scheduled to return to the Commons and it was too early to say which amendments can be chosen.