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Pro-Life Bills in the House of Commons |
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A series of excellent Bills to amend the Abortion Act have been defeated in the House of Commons in the past year, since it is the policy of the governing Party to oppose them.
Ann Winterton MP, introducing hers on 5 June, 07, said:
“The general public, too, are unhappy with the present situation, as a recent survey of opinion by Communicate Research has shown. Seventy-eight per cent of women would like a compulsory cooling-off period between diagnosis of pregnancy and abortion. 85% want more help to be given to those who want to keep that baby, 87% think that public funds should go to charities offering alternatives, and 96% want a right to be fully informed about the health risks involved in abortion. . . .
“In December 2005, Finland’s National Research and Development Centre for Welfare and Health published a three-year study of the entire population of women in Finland. It found that, compared with women who had not been pregnant in the previous year, deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide were 248% higher in the year following an abortion. The study showed that the suicide rate among women who had had abortions was six times higher than that of women who had given birth in the previous year, and double that of women who had suffered miscarriages. . .”
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