Abortion up to birth in the UK
June 23, 2025
74,219
8,510
3,900
16.72%
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27:53Now PlayingAbortion up to birth in the UK
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as posted by the channelMPs vote to decriminalise abortion at any point up to birth
Critics say amendment to current law could pave way for dangerous, as well as sex-selective, abortions
Women will no longer be prosecuted for aborting their pregnancies at any point up to birth.
Majority of 242 to decriminalise seeking an abortion at any stage of gestation for any reason,
women will no longer face an investigation or arrest for doing so.
England and Wales, up to 24 weeks
The Offences Against the Person Act 1861 – which outlaws abortion – is to be amended so that it will no longer apply to women ending their own pregnancies.
Backstreet and dangerous abortions
Sex selective
India 2025
45,080,000 more males than females
0 to 14 years
108.833 to 100
20 to 24 years
110.397 to 100
China
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Significant sex ratio imbalance, with approximately 112 males for every 100 females at birth
This disparity is largely attributed to cultural preferences for sons, the one-child policy, and practices like sex-selective abortion.
Shabana Mahmood, the Justice Secretary
“extending abortions up until the point of birth beyond the exemptions that currently exist, as doing so would not only be unnecessary but dangerous.
“I am deeply concerned to see these measures being progressed in the name of women’s rights, when the potential physical and mental impacts on women would be so devastating.”
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children
law change as “barbaric”.
“Our already liberal abortion law allows an estimated 300,000 babies a year to be killed. Now, even the very limited protection afforded by the law is being stripped away.”
Labour’s Tonia Antoniazzi, passed overwhelmingly—379 to 137
Labour 291 for, 25 against, 85 abstained
Lib dems, 70 for, 2 against
Green, 4 for, 0 against
Conservative, 8 for, 92 against
Reform, 4 for 1 abstained
Rupert Lowe, against
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