See how another country voted on the topic of abortion. The Brits voted against changing the laws today. They are going to keep the current 24 week limit on abortions, they were looking to cut it to 22 weeks. They also expanded women's rights to fatherless births. This was the first Commons debate on abortion for 18 years. PM Gordon Brown backed the current limit.
Conservatives were looking to shorten the amount of weeks women have to have an abortion down to as low as 12 weeks. Ministers also eased the rules for women wanting fertility treatment. Women will not have to show there is a dad in their relationship. The change will make it easier for lesbian couples and single mums to have test-tube babies. England already has the one of highest births rates by single mothers in Europe.
Notes: Abortion was made legal in 1967 in the UK, Original limit was 28 weeks.
In 2005, 191,000 women in the UK had abortions. Nine out of ten were before 13 weeks.
Read more here.
I am not pro-abortion, just showing how others view the subject.
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