Now UK Trying to introduce abortion up to birth
The Home Office’s Domestic Violence and Abuse Bill seeks to protect women. However, the abortion industry plans to hijack this bill by including a section which will bring in abortion up to birth. This means abortion up to birth for any reason, including because the baby is a girl or even an abortion the day before the baby is born.
Currently sections 58 and 59 of the Offences against the Persons Act (OAPA) make abortion a criminal offence in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. However, the Abortion Act 1967 provided certain conditions under which abortion is permissible, allowing over 190,000 abortions a year. Abortion providers, who collect over £100M every year, want even more abortions so they are working to remove sections 58 and 59 of the OAPA which will make the Abortion Act useless and therefore allow abortion up until birth. They want to do this by including in the Domestic Violence Bill, the repeal of sections 58 and 59 of OAPA.
The removal of all legal restrictions on abortion leaves women open to exploitation and risks their health. In 2016, abortion provider Marie Stopes International had its operations suspended after inspectors found 2634 unsafe incidents in one year. The current law meant that this malpractice could be stopped but if abortion is removed from the law, there will be no legal safeguards to prevent abortion giants such as MSI putting women at risk.