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UK lawmakers vote to decriminalize abortion up to birth in England, Wales
LifeSite News ^ | March 19, 2026 | Andreas Wailzer

Posted on 03/19/2026 8:02:20 AM PDT by ebb tide

UK lawmakers vote to decriminalize abortion up to birth in England, Wales

The new measure would keep the 24-weeka abortion limit for doctors but remove criminal penalties for women who carry out abortions themselves at any stage, including late-term procedures.

The House of Lords has confirmed the decriminalization of abortion in England and Wales, allowing women to kill their unborn children themselves up until birth.

The House of Lords voted to back the plans to decriminalize abortion for mothers up to birth, approved by the House of Commons last summer.

On Wednesday, peers in the House of Lords rejected an amendment brought by Conservative Baroness Sheila Lawlor by 185 to 148 votes that sought to remove the clause that allowed women to kill their unborn child up to birth.

For doctors and other healthcare workers, the 24-week abortion limit will remain in place, meaning they could still be charged if they perform an abortion after this point in a pregnancy. However, if a pregnant woman decides to carry out an abortion after 24 weeks, for instance, via abortion pills obtained illegally or otherwise, she cannot be prosecuted for that action under the new legislation.

Pro-life advocates argue that this will lead to more third-trimester abortions, which are also dangerous for the mother, in addition to killing the unborn child.

“If the Crime and Policing Bill receives Royal Assent, it will no longer be illegal for women to perform their own abortions, for any reason, including sex-selective purposes, and at any point up to and during birth,” Right to Life UK wrote.

“This change to the law would likely lead to a significant increase in the number of women performing late-term abortions at home, endangering the lives of many more women,” the pro-life group argued.

Right to Life UK cited the situation in New Zealand, where abortion was decriminalized in 2020, “and the country saw a 43% increase in late-term abortions” that year.

The group also noted that the abortion lobby’s goals are completely out of step with the general public opinion on the matter.

“As you may be aware, polling shows that 89% of the general population and 91% of women agree that gender-selective abortion should be explicitly banned by the law – and only 1% of women support introducing abortion up to birth,” Right to Life UK stated.

“The same polling shows that 60% of the general population and 70% of women want to see our abortion time limit lowered to 20 weeks or below,” the group added.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: abortion; babykillers; bloodontheirhands; bloodontheirheads; childmurder; childsacrifice; latetermabortions; uk; unitedkingdom

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1 posted on 03/19/2026 8:02:20 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; Mrs. Don-o; ...

Ping


2 posted on 03/19/2026 8:02:47 AM PDT by ebb tide (Francis' sin-nodal "church" is not the Catholic Church.)
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To: ebb tide

the ethnic cleansing of native white people is just not happening quickly enough.


3 posted on 03/19/2026 8:05:07 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ebb tide

Oh what the heck, UK, just make aborting a lump of cells legal even if that lump has been alive for 18 years. You know you want to. You already made abortions of old folks legal, even if they protest being put down.


4 posted on 03/19/2026 8:06:40 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: ebb tide

Heartbreaking.


5 posted on 03/19/2026 8:09:10 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: ebb tide

Monstrous


6 posted on 03/19/2026 8:10:17 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: ebb tide

china giggles


7 posted on 03/19/2026 8:10:43 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: ebb tide

Why aren’t they including 7 days postnatal?


8 posted on 03/19/2026 8:11:43 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-M)
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To: ebb tide

Hmmmmm? Maybe some pro-killyobaby folks will move over there.


9 posted on 03/19/2026 8:11:49 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: ebb tide

That country is down right evil at this point.
They no longer have any moral compass


10 posted on 03/19/2026 8:11:57 AM PDT by 1ScrappyArmyMom
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To: ebb tide

Up to birth. Which means you can take a newborn baby and toss it in the trash.


11 posted on 03/19/2026 8:15:08 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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Oh what the heck, UK, just make aborting a lump of cells legal even if that lump has been alive for 18 years.

Reminds me of an old Bill Cosby routine, arguing with his young son: “I brought you into this world, and I can take you out of it!”

12 posted on 03/19/2026 8:15:55 AM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: ebb tide

Just when you think the UK can’t become any more evil and depraved, a story like this comes along.


13 posted on 03/19/2026 8:28:13 AM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: ebb tide

UK is a lost cause.


14 posted on 03/19/2026 8:31:39 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ebb tide

Of course they do.


15 posted on 03/19/2026 8:43:38 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: ebb tide

Any government that promotes citizens to destroy themselves and their children is evil.


16 posted on 03/19/2026 8:45:53 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking..........)
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To: ebb tide

How long before they criminalize live White births?


17 posted on 03/19/2026 9:28:16 AM PDT by 91B40
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To: PGR88

exactly


18 posted on 03/19/2026 9:38:16 AM PDT by Gene Eric
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“UK lawmakers vote to decriminalize abortion up to birth in England, Wales”

And Satan rejoiced after that happened.


19 posted on 03/19/2026 10:03:28 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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“UK lawmakers vote to decriminalize abortion up to birth in England, Wales”

And Satan rejoiced after that happened.


20 posted on 03/19/2026 10:04:22 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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