Page 14 | MPs vote to decriminalise abortion

AirborneElephant · 2025-06-17T18:34:22+00:00

AIBU to be thrilled! Sorry if there’s already a thread, couldn’t see one.

Witchling · 17/06/2025 20:16

ladykale · 17/06/2025 19:46

I think being able to abort a late term pregnancy for any reason is pretty disgusting. I don’t see the difference between this and leaving a new born in a bin to die when they are some way past the point that they could survive on the outside alone (25 weeks +). I think the current law strikes a decent balance between recognising that end a life is a big deal but acknowledging there are some situations when necessary late term

Yes, all those women who now will get to 37 weeks and have an abortion now it's being decriminalised!

9:30am cup of tea
10:30am abortion
12:30 lunch with Brenda

I can see it now....

ilovesooty · 17/06/2025 20:14

Good news.

EmeraldRoulette · 17/06/2025 20:12

ladykale · 17/06/2025 19:46

I think being able to abort a late term pregnancy for any reason is pretty disgusting. I don’t see the difference between this and leaving a new born in a bin to die when they are some way past the point that they could survive on the outside alone (25 weeks +). I think the current law strikes a decent balance between recognising that end a life is a big deal but acknowledging there are some situations when necessary late term

You really need to find out the facts here.

@AirborneElephant thanks for letting us know.

Caerulea · 17/06/2025 20:12

Lots of misunderstanding around this, like there's going to be a rash of heavily pregnant women just killing babies willy nilly.

Rather, the women who have to go through the appaling experience of late term abortion due to risk of death, & so on, don't risk going to prison.

Zero evidence of wild increases in the countries that have the same 'limit'.

lnks · 17/06/2025 20:03

ladykale · 17/06/2025 19:46

I think being able to abort a late term pregnancy for any reason is pretty disgusting. I don’t see the difference between this and leaving a new born in a bin to die when they are some way past the point that they could survive on the outside alone (25 weeks +). I think the current law strikes a decent balance between recognising that end a life is a big deal but acknowledging there are some situations when necessary late term

You do know that they haven’t changed the law right? They have decriminalised it, they haven’t legalised it.

Summerhillsquare · 17/06/2025 19:53

There's at least one thread.

Prosecuting women in extreme distress who are no threat to anyone and unlikely to do it again seems cruel and wasteful to me.

Note to many - decriminalisation is NOT legalisation. It doesn't create a right to later term abortions.

TheSmallAssassin · 17/06/2025 19:50

I trust women, @ladykale. So few late term abortions are carried out, nobody is going to be doing it on a whim.

ladykale · 17/06/2025 19:46

I think being able to abort a late term pregnancy for any reason is pretty disgusting. I don’t see the difference between this and leaving a new born in a bin to die when they are some way past the point that they could survive on the outside alone (25 weeks +). I think the current law strikes a decent balance between recognising that end a life is a big deal but acknowledging there are some situations when necessary late term

SemperIdem · 17/06/2025 19:36

This is a welcome and timely move, I’m glad to see it passed.