Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi told MPs Packer was \u201ctaken from her hospital bed\u201d by police to face the \u201cindignity\u201d of a four-and-a-half-year legal process. \u201cThis is not justice, this is cruelty, and it has got to end,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Antoniazzi\u2019s amendment was therefore aimed at women using at-home abortion pills, as criminal sanctions will still apply to medical professionals.<\/p>\n
But a letter by more than 1,000 medical professionals, arranged by the anti-abortion campaign group Right to Life, argued it would make dangerous late-term abortions \u201cpossible up to birth for any reason,\u201d including choosing the child\u2019s sex.<\/p>\n
Liberal Democrat MP Angus MacDonald put it more bluntly in Tuesday\u2019s debate \u2014 asking what would happen if a woman carrying a baby at full term \u201cdecides it is an inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n
Antoniazzi was \u201cappalled\u201d by these suggestions. \u201cThis is not about abortion up to 40 weeks,\u201d she told POLITICO. \u201cIt\u2019s not about changing the Abortion Act. It\u2019s not about selective sex. It\u2019s just not all of those things that we are getting bombarded with in our inboxes, and it\u2019s a misrepresentation, and it\u2019s really, really unfair to those women that have been in the criminal system.\u201d<\/p>\n
A \u2018song and dance\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n Labour MP Stella Creasy also wanted to decriminalize abortion, but took a different approach. She proposed a more far-reaching amendment \u2014 which did not come to a vote for procedural reasons \u2014 to repeal the 1861 law entirely and establish a new framework in its place, including enshrining abortion access as a human right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi told MPs Packer was \u201ctaken from her hospital bed\u201d by police to face the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[26054,15,49,978,659,6795],"class_list":{"0":"post-192576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-abortion","9":"tag-united-kingdom","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa","13":"tag-womens-health"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114700596203472666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}