To be relieved with the House of Lords decision?

[InASubmarine]

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!

But what if they were aborted due to incurable, painful illnesses and disabilities? How should they be helped growing up in a country without a decent public healthcare system?

Except that's not what happens: the pro-lifers lose interest at the birth.

Funny how pro life in america never extends beyond pregnancy. The vast majority of states that voted to ban abortion also voted against SNAP. So you will be forced to have a baby you cant afford to feed AND we will take away they very thing you need to use to feed them!

Find me a concrete example where that has been a reason for abortion and I’ll take you seriously.

Risk being shot at school.

Those cases are the absolute minority.

When thinking of abortion think of driving drunk. You had a few many a got behind the wheel of a car and in an inebriated state, struck someone and killed them.

You have unprotected sex? Well guess what may happen?

it is 2026! If grown women and men can’t figure out that sex has the potential to create a baby then they shouldn’t be having sex. Saying “oh it was an accident” just doesn’t cut it for ripping a babies limbs apart and ending their chance at life.

Don’t want a baby? Don’t have sex. Simple

sorry but no. It is murder and should absolutely be outlawed unless in the most extreme circumstances.

@EvangelineTheNightStar

you are being ridiculous. You know perfectly well there is a cut off and you can’t get abortions easily after 24 weeks

Anyone else wondering if there is some sort of algorithm at work that that flags up these sort of threads to the "Birth at any price" lot?

Don’t want a baby? Don’t have sex. Simple

Yes absolutely. I definitely should have chosen not to be raped.

It’s not just their body tho is it? It’s someone else’s they are ending.

You know rightly that doesn’t apply to rape. I was raped and if I had got pregnant I would have kept the baby (age 18)

the baby deserves a life. I categorically don’t have the right to end that life solely on the circumstance.

Also, sex and rape are not the same thing so don’t misquote me

Aka the "head in the sand" opinion.

Here in the real world, over 100,000 women die each year because they do not have access to safe abortion.

But fuck those people, eh?

Ok. So am abortion is allowed if the woman was raped. Yay for past me. What if the dr didn't believe it was rape? My mum didn't. The police didn't.

And I wasn't 18. I was 15, might have been 14 actually. I can't remember for definite. I've blocked it out.

Like I said, it’s no ones business.

In whose interest is an unwanted baby being born? Having to bear a child you don't want is not a punishment for having sex.

The vast majority of abortions do not involve foetus's limbs being pulled apart.

Agree: not your uterus, not your business!

I was raped by an ex boyfriend and my friend (a specially trained rape support officer in the Met) said that my chance of anyone believing me was virtually zero. I had obviously got rid of him immediately and she said that while she believed me, almost no one else would.

It is widely accepted that 70 to 90 percent of rapes are unreported. Of the ones that are, only about 4 to 5% end in conviction. So on the maths alone, a tiny minority of rape victims that find themselves pregnant as a result, would be eligible for a legal abortion.

And at what point could they abort? At the conviction of their rapist? It is currently taking up to two years. A pregnancy is nine months.

🙄 And if my grandmother had wheels…

But that's the problem. People are very quick to say abortion is wrong, but have no interest whatsoever in helping when that baby is actually born, whether that's providing financial aid, being part of the 'village', or adopting the baby because every time the mother looks at them, all she sees is the face of the man who raped her.

Why are fully sentient women and girls dismissed as an 'absolute minority' whose lives should just be sacrificed, but abortions after viability should not be dismissed even though they are an 'absolute minority' and most abortions are at very early stages?
Nobody wants abortions, but sadly they are sometimes a necessity for the safety and wellbeing of women, girls and babies.

Sorry this happened to you, and I am sorry you had to respond to such vile posts.

It's funny, the so-called "Pro-Lifer's" always seem to treat other humans like shit.

Anyway, the law is on our side, not theirs, so let them throw their tantrums.

Having an abortion was the BEST decision I ever made (young, no money, abusive rship, FAILED contraception before anyone jumps down my throat).

MY body, MY choice. I hope the folk on this thread shouting murder are all vegetarians too. After all….in your humble opinions…..a life is a life right?

Honestly…..some women!!!!!!!!!!!! Disgusting comments.

Fucking hell the idiots are out in force tonight…

You'd hate to have me at the dinner table all you pro life lunatics…

I believe every woman has a choice, and if that choice is an abortion I fully support that

I wonder how many "abortion is murder" posters are also on the "we need to cut the benefit bill/keep the two child cap" threads.

Honestly, it's so far in the past I'm no longer traumatised. And I'll never stop responding to stupid pro-life shit with reasons why abortion is so important.

ETA: thank you though.