MPs make good decision, maintain 24-week abortion limit
Yesterday we laid out the main points behind last night's key parliamentary vote on whether to reduce the abortion limit or not, explaining why the miserable Cameron-backed 20 Reasons For 20 Weeks campaign was scientifically unsound. And, good news: given a free vote, MPs voted convincingly to keep the current 24-week limit. Take that, Nadine Dorries.
They voted down the 20-week proposal by 332 votes to 190, and the 22-week limit by 304 to 233. Worryingly, three cabinet ministers - Ruth Kelly, Des Browne and Paul Murphy (all Catholics) voted to cut the limit to 12 weeks.
However, Labour's Chris McCafferty argued that the proposed restrictions would be "prolonging the agony" and that was "cruel, cynical, ill-informed and inhumane". Read the full report here.
Hurrah!
There is still a bit of sanity in the world. Also good that MPs rejected the notion that there needs to be a father figure for IVF treatment
Conservative odiousness
Hurrah! The comment from Edward Leigh MP was particularly horrid though: "William Wilberforce fought against entrenched opposition... and a world view that some people were not fully human. We know that we are up against it tonight."
Yeeeeah, let's liken foetuses at 13 weeks to black people under slavery. Lovely.
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