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Our MP Laura Kyrke-Smith for Aylesbury has issued a statement on the gov't's historic abortion amendment, immediately stopping the arrests, investigations, and prosecutions of women seeking desperate medical care.
"Today I voted in favour of Tonia Antoniazzi’s abortion amendment, New Clause 1 (NC1), to the Crime and Policing Bill.
This amendment will end the prosecution of women for ending their own pregnancies, of which there have been increasing cases in the last five years. NC1 is targeted and narrow to solve this current problem. It changes absolutely nothing regarding how abortion is provided or the conditions set out in the Abortion Act for legal access regarding grounds, time limit, two doctors signatures.
It just excludes women from the underlying criminal law.
NC1 protects women and abortion services and is backed by the sector - including every abortion provider and organisation that represents them in the UK - 5 Royal Medical Colleges, the British Medical Association, countless Violence Against Women and Girls groups, Women’s Rights groups and unions.
It will immediately stop the arrests, long investigations, and prosecutions of women.
I am pleased the amendment passed today. No one should face criminal investigations for seeking medical care at the most desperate moments of their lives. This will now end.
Laura Kyrke-Smith MP
MP for Aylesbury and the villagesMy statement on today's historic abortion amendment vote:
Today I voted in favour of Tonia Antoniazzi’s abortion amendment, New Clause 1 (NC1), to the Crime and Policing Bill.
This amendment will end the prosecution of women for ending their own pregnancies, of which there have been increasing cases in the last five years. NC1 is targeted and narrow to solve this current problem. It changes absolutely nothing regarding how abortion is provided or the conditions set out in the Abortion Act for legal access regarding grounds, time limit, two doctors signatures. It just excludes women from the underlying criminal law.
NC1 protects women and abortion services and is backed by the sector - including every abortion provider and organisation that represents abortion providers in the UK, 5 Royal Medical Colleges, the British Medical Association, countless Violence Against Women and Girls groups, Women’s Rights groups and unions. It will immediately stop the arrests, long investigations, and prosecutions of women.
I am pleased the amendment passed today. No one should face criminal investigations for seeking medical care at the most desperate moments of their lives. This will now end.
Laura Kyrke-Smith MP
MP for Aylesbury and the villages
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