He will also repel the problem of the news agenda at a time when social conservatives in the United States tighten abortion restrictions and closely watch British politics. Vice-President JD Vance accused politicians of “backing up rights” in February on the buffer zones, which restricts harassment and protests outside the abortion clinics, after a man was prosecuted to pray and then refuse to move on.
A law of 1861 made it a crime in England and in the land of Wales for a woman of “obtaining her own miscarriage”. However, Parliament adopted a 1967 law allowing abortion up to 24 weeks after pregnancy, if a certain number of conditions are met and two doctors provide a signature.
Activists of abortion rights believe that this situation is obsolete, in particular after the repeal of the sections of the 1861 law in Northern Ireland in 2019.
“ Unfinished business’
Tonia Antoniazzi, one of the two Labor deputies writing an amendment to decriminalization, told Politico: “Vulnerable women are the subject of an investigation and to continue by virtue of this cruel and obsolete law, and I think that it must change by urgency. I work for change in this area and I would be welcome at any opportunity to work with colleagues from all sides of the house (orders) on the reform we need.
Stella Creasy, the other deputy writing an amendment, told Politico that the situation in Northern Ireland had created “unfinished affairs … and had left my own voters without the same protection of their fundamental human law to access a safe, legal and local abortion”.
The two deputies foresee each to propose a different transversal amendment to the Crime Bill and the Police of the Labor Government when they return for their report in the municipalities.
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