MPS is Voted to disintegrate Abortion In a historic step in England and Wales that will begin the far -reaching change for reproductive rights in decades.
After an emotional and emotional debate in House of CommonsMPs voted in favor of reform from 379 to 137.
He supported an amendment by Labor MP Tonia Antoniazi, resulting in a threat of investigation, arrest, prosecution, or imprisonment of any woman, which works in relation to her pregnancy.
Improvements are designed to protect women while maintaining punishment for medical professionals and derogatory partners who eliminate a pregnancy outside the current legal framework.
During the debate, MPs argued that the “Victorian” abortion law of the UK was rapidly used against weak women and girls.
Under the current law, abortion in England and Wales is a criminal offense, but is legal for 24 weeks with signature from two doctors.
After this time, permission is also allowed under limited circumstances, which has a risk of life of the mother.
Medication can also be prescribed to eliminate women Pregnancy At home if they are pregnant less than 10 weeks.
In recent years, calls have increased for law reforms, with the increasing number of women undergoing illegal abortion.
But the move faced strong opposition from Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmud, who described the proposed reforms as “extreme”.
The issue hit high-profile cases such as Nikola Packer and Carla Foster in recent months.
Ms. Packer was approved by a jury last month, when she took an abortion medicine, beyond the pregnant, legal 10-week range of about 26 weeks.
During her testing, more than four years after the police investigation began, she told the gamblers that she did not realize that she was pregnant more than 10 weeks.
The case of Ms. Foster, in 2023, was jailed to get illegal abortion pills, when she was pregnant between 32 and 34 weeks, finally the appeal of the appeal reduced her sentence and suspended, a senior judge said that it was “just one conclusion” to send women to jail for abortion related crimes.
Labor MP Tonia Antoniazi said that the police had examined more than 100 women for suspected illegal abortion in the last five years “” women who have faced natural abortion and stilging “.
In the Commons, he told the MPs: “Each of these cases is a trustee, which is capable of our old abortion law.
“Originally passed by an all-man Parliament selected by men alone, this Victorian law is rapidly used against weak women and girls.”
Labor MP Lizzie Calling told MPs that 88 percent of miscarriage occurs before nine weeks and this change protects women from “cruel investigation”, which they described as “infiltration”.
But Sir Edward Leh, the conservative MP and father of the House, described the reforms as a “pro-woman not” and argued that they would “introduce sex-selective abortion”.
And DUP MP Carla Lockhart insisted on “both Lives Matter”, saying that “will be a crook for both women and unborn children”.
The latest attempt to change the law repeatedly follows calls to cancel the classes of the 19th century law, crime against the individual act in 1861, after miscarriage after miscarriage in North Ireland in 2019.
The MPs had removed the threat of prosecution against women last year for debating similar amendments, before the Parliament was dissolved for the general election.
Earlier this month, a debate in the Westminster Hall heard calls from pro-chest campaigners that women should no longer draw “from the hospital bed” in the police cell “on abortion.
But opponents of the decrying warning warned against such “radical steps”.
The Society for the Protection of Ajanme Children (SPUC) urged the MPs to vote against both the amendments, saying that they would bring “the biggest expansion of abortion”.
