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British Lawmakers Vote to Decriminalise Abortion Up Until Birth
Breitbart ^ | June 18, 2025 | Kurt Zindulka

Posted on 06/18/2025 8:32:20 AM PDT by Morgana

British lawmakers have backed the most significant change to abortion law in decades, voting in favour of an amendment to decriminalise abortions up to the moment of birth.

Under current British law, abortion is technically illegal. Still, it is decriminalised during the first 24 weeks of a pregnancy and in some limited cases beyond if the life of the mother is in danger. Over a quarter-million abortions take place legally in England and Wales under this system a year.

However, on Tuesday afternoon, the MPs backed an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill by a margin of 379 MPs in favour to 137 against to decriminalise abortions at any time for women in England and Wales, the BBC reported. This would effectively end the ability of the state to prosecute women who intentionally end their pregnancies up to the moment of birth.

The legislation, put forward by left-wing Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, would not apply to doctors or others who assist in carrying out abortions without authorisation past the 24-week mark.

Antoniazzi told the parliament that “these women need care and support, and not criminalisation”.

“Each one of these cases is a travesty, enabled by our outdated abortion law,” she said. “Originally passed by an all-male parliament elected by men alone, this Victorian law is increasingly used against vulnerable women and girls.”

The move was criticised by pro-life advocates, including the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC), which said that it was “horrified” by the vote.

SPUC public policy manager Alithea Williams said: “If this clause becomes law, a woman who aborts her baby at any point in pregnancy, even moments before birth, would not be committing a criminal offence.”

“Now, even the very limited protection afforded by the law is being stripped away,” she added.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortion; prolife; unitedkingdom
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Where is King Arthur when you need him?
1 posted on 06/18/2025 8:32:20 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Demographics is destiny. This abortion change brings closer the point where the “Asians” will take over UK.


2 posted on 06/18/2025 8:34:56 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

Horrifying.


3 posted on 06/18/2025 8:36:08 AM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: Morgana

Why not allow up to 6 months old? Some people might change their minds.


4 posted on 06/18/2025 8:38:51 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: TheDon

Very.


5 posted on 06/18/2025 8:39:59 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Morgana

“”British lawmakers have backed the most significant change to abortion law in decades, voting in favour of an amendment to decriminalise abortions up to the moment of birth.””

Meanwhile... Satan smiles and nods with approval of his very useful UK minions.


6 posted on 06/18/2025 8:43:56 AM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Morgana

Guess who won’t be aborting? Muslims.

Goodbye, Britain.


7 posted on 06/18/2025 8:44:18 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: Morgana

The UK must be one of the few countries not experiencing birth-rate decline.


8 posted on 06/18/2025 8:46:40 AM PDT by adorno ( )
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To: Morgana

Sargon of Akkad (Carl Benjamin) did a video on this:

” Britain is Governed by Evil “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hm4pO9dJJzE


9 posted on 06/18/2025 8:49:15 AM PDT by _Jim (Trump 2024 (We won!))
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To: Tell It Right

The NWO is taking over.

Gorillas are okay. Just not people.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5U7R73_9xQ&t=1s


10 posted on 06/18/2025 9:27:20 AM PDT by dforest
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To: simpson96

Soon Muslims will be 25% the population. Most British people don’t vote but ALL Muslims see it as their duty while also having multiple wives and lots of Mohammeds. The Muslims also love grooming and raping native British. The country is dead and doesn’t know it.


11 posted on 06/18/2025 9:47:09 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Almost. Remember? “Make baby comfortable and then a conversation ensues between the doctor and the mother”. Dr. Mengele is nervously smoking a cigarette around the corner.


12 posted on 06/18/2025 10:23:59 AM PDT by Mi-kha-el ((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
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To: Morgana

My, how the mighty have fallen.


13 posted on 06/18/2025 10:26:35 AM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: Morgana
Decriminalise Abortion Up Until Birth.

It's good to know that abortions are still illegal after birth.

Why not just say "decriminize abortions altogether?"

-PJ

14 posted on 06/18/2025 10:27:26 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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Please President Trump, urge Senators Thune and Schumer to get America out of Nato. First.


15 posted on 06/18/2025 10:29:46 AM PDT by Kudsman (I am Coal baby! Burning for you. )
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To: Morgana; lightman

NO!


16 posted on 06/18/2025 10:42:30 AM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Morgana

Lol. Satan laughs. Who’s going to fight us NOW?! Not the current generation of pansies.


17 posted on 06/18/2025 11:55:03 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Morgana

Mollach must be sated...


18 posted on 06/18/2025 12:24:13 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Morgana

England is on its last legs. They are truly imploding. Muslims taking over their nation, jailing people for speech and thought crimes, murdering children in the womb. They are doomed.


19 posted on 06/18/2025 2:00:44 PM PDT by vpintheak (Screw the ChiComms! America first!)
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To: Morgana

Are they still pretending that infanticide is not next?


20 posted on 06/18/2025 2:52:57 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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