UK Catholic Baroness Warns of ‘Terrifying’ Plan to Decriminalize Abortion Pills Up to Birth
Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest is leading an effort in the House of Lords to remove an amendment to a bill that would make it legal for a woman to end her own pregnancy at any stage.
LONDON — A UK Catholic peer has warned that proposed legislation, currently passing through the British Parliament to decriminalize abortion up to birth, is a “terrifying proposition” and a “barbaric step” that would effectively encourage mothers to use abortion pills at home, even in later stages of pregnancy.
In an opinion piece in the Daily Mail published Wednesday, Baroness Rosa Monckton said Clause 191, an amendment to a Crime and Policing Bill, would remove “all remaining legal invigilation of women regarding abortion, allowing a mother-to-be to abort her baby, up to full term, for any reason at all, including its sex.”
The amendment, first tabled by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, was pushed through the House of Commons last June after just 46 minutes of backbench debate. If it is ultimately agreed by both Houses of Parliament and enacted, it would no longer be a criminal offense for a woman to end her own pregnancy at any stage, including late in gestation, while leaving criminal penalties in place for others who perform unlawful abortions.
Baroness Monckton and Baroness Philippa Stroud are leading a coordinated bid in the House of Lords to remove the clause from the bill and restore mandatory in‑person medical consultations before at‑home abortions.
In her article, Monckton said that if passed, the legislation “could increase the likelihood of women suffering coercive third-trimester terminations — since an abusive partner could point out there was no longer any legal penalty — and the unspeakable trauma of a late-term abortion without any medical supervision.”
Such a change in the law would effectively “re-introduce the backstreet abortion,” she argued, “as women beyond the current 24-week legal limit are in effect to be encouraged to abort at home, on their own, using pills ordered through the post, which are not designed for use outside of a clinical context beyond 10 weeks.”
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Absolutely shocking and evil plan. If the proposal would be passed this means that young girls and women will engage in infanticide. Also, it's terrible to see that abortion is already legal in Britain until 24 weeks or pregnancy. In Sweden the limit used to be 12 weeks, now it's 18 weeks. So we see how tolerance to ever later abortion is growing. We must pray every day for the unborn. And we should ask our parish priests to pray for the unborn in the Prayers of the Faithful. Not just occasionally. Often! Every Mass! How many times are we asked to pray for " the immigrants " ! But hardly ever for the unborn. Neither for persecuted Christians in Nigeria and in the world.
Shocking piece. The demonic legion of eugenics, birthed by Francis Galton, is still alive in the UK. Thank you for alerting those who live in the US on what could face us if we’re not vigilant against these forces.
Look who’s the biggest cheerleader of this draconian law. 👇👇
https://www.rcog.org.uk/news/rcog-urges-peers-to-protect-women-from-police-investigations-and-criminal-charges-for-ending-their-own-pregnancy/