MPs vote to decriminalise abortion

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

Do you know what a vested interest is? Could you set out what you think it means?

I quite like people obeying the law. I believe that the law was put in place following discussion
This law has stood in its current form since 1870, when the law also considered women to be barely people in their own right, but mere chattels.

I believe that new ideas which are to become law should be properly debated.
There has been a campaign asking people to contact their MP about this amendment and it was debated in Parliament; it will continue to be open to scrutiny as this bill makes its way through parliament to become law. Doesn’t this process- our democratic process- count as being properly debated? Did you watch the debate on the amendment and find it wanting?

I believe that there is a good reason for a 24 week limit
and that limit remains unchanged.

ordering pills from India and taking them at 39 weeks, no, I dont think that should be given a bye.

ok really, how often do you imagine this will happen? It’s the most ridiculously unlikely scenario that you are using in order to object to the whole decriminalisation (which, by the way, is not the same as legalising. The process you describe would still be illegal, and people could still be prosecuted for it).

I am suspicious of the organisations that want this because I believe they have not considered all the issues.

Wow, all those experts in this area, professional bodies, people who spent their whole career working with women who go through the vast array of different situations around maternal and gynaecological health, different areas of women’s health, and you don’t think they have considered all the issues. Either you are incredibly arrogant to say this, or incredibly deluded.

They are 100% on the side of women having all the rights and the foetus having none

I don’t actually think you know what the legal position was, or what it will be after this change. I also don’t see you showing much interest in finding out, you just stick to your misinformed position.

And if you don't want to be pregnant, either abstain from sex or use contraception.

It's really not difficult.

Punish women rather than give them a choice to abort, nice.

Please tell us about the 100% perfectly failsafe method of contraception that all men will joyfully use/that all women irrespective of medical conditions can use. Please also tell us about the failsafe method for sustaining a marriage or long term relationship whilst abstaining from sex for those of us who cannot use the current not failsafe contraception, especially those whose partners won't use barrier methods because 'it doesn't feel nice'.

Alternatively, develop some knowledge and human compassion.

Or the fact that sex is consensual 100% of the time and rape never happens and abusive relationships with coercive sex also never happens.

And the fail-safe method of keeping one's circumstances the same once pregnant, without losing a job, a spouse, a relationship or a house; and the failsafe method of retaining physical and mental health rather than getting prenatal depression or hyperemesis.

You are obviously obtuse if you can’t understand many woman are forced to have medical terminations in late pregnancy to save their own life. You did say any reason is disgusting.

I read that differently, 19ptrialprice. I thought the poster meant 'for any reason, even if the reason seems thin', rather than 'no matter how strong the reason'.