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To be relieved with the House of Lords decision?

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InASubmarine · 19/03/2026 13:47

I have just seen on the news that the House of Lords have approved the bid to decriminalise abortion. I am so relieved. I can’t believe in a supposed modern society women are still subject to Victorian laws on their own body.

i wish they had gone one step further and enshrined a woman’s legal right to an abortion to help add protections if Nigel and his gang of loons get in and try to pull what they did in America.

But overall I see this as such a win for women everywhere and a welcome change that will remove fear from lots of lives!

Aibu to feel this way? It’s a scary world as a woman at the moment!

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WilderHawthorn · 19/03/2026 22:02

Abortion is healthcare for women, not murder.

fantastic that this has passed, as early as possible, as late as necessary.

TakeTheCuntingQuichePatricia · 19/03/2026 22:01

Supperlite · 19/03/2026 21:52

A healthy foetus would be born and be a child if there is not the intervention to kill them.

I simply do not see how anyone can think that abortion isn’t murder.

YABU not to understand that people can have different opinions on the interface between the rights of the unborn and the rights of mothers, and anyone who doesn’t conform to your opinion is a “loon”. It’s not a very nuanced POV…

What about when the foetus wont be healthy? What about when the woman, who is legally still a child, is pregnant because a male relative has been raping her for years?

MigGirl · 19/03/2026 21:59

Supperlite · 19/03/2026 21:52

A healthy foetus would be born and be a child if there is not the intervention to kill them.

I simply do not see how anyone can think that abortion isn’t murder.

YABU not to understand that people can have different opinions on the interface between the rights of the unborn and the rights of mothers, and anyone who doesn’t conform to your opinion is a “loon”. It’s not a very nuanced POV…

And this was the view of all those in America who agreed with Row vrs Wade being overturned.
Yet now they are finding out the hard way that to deny women the right to abortion also denies women the right to life saving treatment in the event that an abortion is necessary to save the life of the women. There have already been deaths of women since in States where abortion is illegal.
Many do not consider the whole consequences when they want to ban abortion.

Hemsfa · 19/03/2026 21:53

Supperlite · 19/03/2026 21:52

A healthy foetus would be born and be a child if there is not the intervention to kill them.

I simply do not see how anyone can think that abortion isn’t murder.

YABU not to understand that people can have different opinions on the interface between the rights of the unborn and the rights of mothers, and anyone who doesn’t conform to your opinion is a “loon”. It’s not a very nuanced POV…

I agree but an abortion debate on here always go wrong. Name calling. "Forced birther". "Baby killer"

Supperlite · 19/03/2026 21:52

A healthy foetus would be born and be a child if there is not the intervention to kill them.

I simply do not see how anyone can think that abortion isn’t murder.

YABU not to understand that people can have different opinions on the interface between the rights of the unborn and the rights of mothers, and anyone who doesn’t conform to your opinion is a “loon”. It’s not a very nuanced POV…

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