Summary
In a warning to UK Parliament, Baroness Rosa Monckton, a Catholic peer, published an opinion piece in The Daily Mail highlighting concerns about proposed legislation that would decriminalize abortion up to birth. The amendment, tabled by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi and included in the Crime and Policing Bill, aims to remove all legal restrictions on women’s ability to terminate their pregnancies at any stage. Monckton argues this could lead to increased risks of coercive late-term abortions, as there would no longer be a criminal penalty for such actions. She also fears an increase in unsupervised home abortions with the use of abortion pills, which are not designed for outside clinical settings beyond 10 weeks. The amendment has already been passed by the House of Commons and is now under consideration in the House of Lords, where Baroness Rosa Monckton and Baroness Philippa Strath have initiated a campaign to remove it from the bill.
Key Topics
Baracktonia Bill, Abortion pills, Late-term abortions
