Stories like this should now be a thing of the past.
**Zara**
>Zara was a young teenager when she was investigated by the police after a stillbirth at 28 weeks, accused of illegal abortion. Her phone and laptop were confiscated during her GCSEs, and the distress of the investigation drove her to self-harm. The investigation only concluded when, over a year later, the coroner found that the pregnancy had ended as a result of natural causes
**Jessica**
>Aged 19, she took abortion medication and gave birth at home. She was interviewed by the police and told them that she had believed she was early in pregnancy. Three years later, on the eve of her trial for illegal abortion – after her name, address, photographs and medical history had been widely published – prosecutors said they had no evidence to achieve a conviction and accepted that she had told the police the truth from the start. She was found not guilty. The next day, tabloid journalists turned up at her grandparents’ house looking for her
Killing an eight month fetus is murder, infanticide, and wrong CMV
Plus-Literature-7221 on
House of Lords backs abortion up to birth is the more accurate title.
Slippery slope proven right yet again.
NoAssociate7880 on
Cool..
No reason to still have the House of Lords though.
Deadliftdeadlife on
I think you need to understand both sides of an argument to have a well informed opinion.
I’ve understood both sides, in my opinion there’s no wrong or right answer, it’s a moral issue
And I fully support abortion
I completely get where people against it are coming from, I understand the moral issue of it, and I just don’t care enough about unborn kids to make woman have to suffer through an unwanted pregnancy
Dadavester on
I’m on two minds with this.
Abortion should be free, easy to obtain and not criminal up until a certain point. After which it should be illegal.
You should be able to call your doctors and arrange an abortion as easy as any other appointment, and it should be one appointment and sorted.
But to decriminalise it entirely is wrong. It de-facto legalises abortion up until birth.
WinHour4300 on
It’s not decriminalising abortion, it’s decriminalising abortion up to the point of birth for any reason.Â
So a healthy baby could be aborted at full term and the mother could not be prosecuted. If the baby had been born it would be murder. The development is basically identical, it’s just whether they are inside or outside the womb.Â
Unfortunately we know that there are illegal sex abortions happening in the UK; we may well get fully developed baby girls killed for being the wrong sex.Â
thereforewhat on
A terrible decision.Â
It just encourages people to misuse abortion pills dangerously instead of changing how they are prescribed to ensure they are only given within reasonable limits.Â
Not to mention the fact that it also encourages people to kill a child well after the point of viability.
That should have remained criminal.
Originzzzzzzz on
I’ve never understood why people care so much about abortion but orphanages and foster care systems run rampant with exploitation and crime and misery, focus on what we can actually do something about maybe rather than weird non-issues that run us in moral circles
feministgeek on
Entirely unsurprising the “gender critical” feminists, who position themselves as champions of women and girls are opposed to legislation protecting women’s reproductive healthcare.
Extremely odd that the BBC forgot to mention that. Or maybe not, given their long and well documented history of rabid transphobia.
DukePPUk on
The headline is a little misleading; to be clear, abortion is not being decriminalised.
If this bill passes abortion will still be inherently a crime – illegal to do unless a specific exception applies.
What this bill does is make it so that no one commits an offence in relation to their own pregnancy. Anyone else involved in an otherwise illegal abortion may still be committing a crime and can go to prison.
GallifreyFallsOver on
One thing I heard a while back that I thought was quite good;
If you want to find where you draw the line on abortion in terms of when it’s okay etc; you simply ask yourself; if you were trying for a baby; at what point in the ~9 months from sex to exiting the birth canal would you consider yourself to be having a child; whatever your answer is that is the latest point you’re allowed to personally allow abortion up to.
policesiren7 on
Abortion isn’t legal in the UK? Damn… here I was thinking it was just the USA that was backwards
WinstonFox on
Just abortion after birth for this lot then. Â Fucking fuckheads.
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Stories like this should now be a thing of the past.
**Zara**
>Zara was a young teenager when she was investigated by the police after a stillbirth at 28 weeks, accused of illegal abortion. Her phone and laptop were confiscated during her GCSEs, and the distress of the investigation drove her to self-harm. The investigation only concluded when, over a year later, the coroner found that the pregnancy had ended as a result of natural causes
**Jessica**
>Aged 19, she took abortion medication and gave birth at home. She was interviewed by the police and told them that she had believed she was early in pregnancy. Three years later, on the eve of her trial for illegal abortion – after her name, address, photographs and medical history had been widely published – prosecutors said they had no evidence to achieve a conviction and accepted that she had told the police the truth from the start. She was found not guilty. The next day, tabloid journalists turned up at her grandparents’ house looking for her
https://bpas-campaigns.org/time-to-act/the-women/
Killing an eight month fetus is murder, infanticide, and wrong CMV
House of Lords backs abortion up to birth is the more accurate title.
Slippery slope proven right yet again.
Cool..
No reason to still have the House of Lords though.
I think you need to understand both sides of an argument to have a well informed opinion.
I’ve understood both sides, in my opinion there’s no wrong or right answer, it’s a moral issue
And I fully support abortion
I completely get where people against it are coming from, I understand the moral issue of it, and I just don’t care enough about unborn kids to make woman have to suffer through an unwanted pregnancy
I’m on two minds with this.
Abortion should be free, easy to obtain and not criminal up until a certain point. After which it should be illegal.
You should be able to call your doctors and arrange an abortion as easy as any other appointment, and it should be one appointment and sorted.
But to decriminalise it entirely is wrong. It de-facto legalises abortion up until birth.
It’s not decriminalising abortion, it’s decriminalising abortion up to the point of birth for any reason.Â
So a healthy baby could be aborted at full term and the mother could not be prosecuted. If the baby had been born it would be murder. The development is basically identical, it’s just whether they are inside or outside the womb.Â
Unfortunately we know that there are illegal sex abortions happening in the UK; we may well get fully developed baby girls killed for being the wrong sex.Â
A terrible decision.Â
It just encourages people to misuse abortion pills dangerously instead of changing how they are prescribed to ensure they are only given within reasonable limits.Â
Not to mention the fact that it also encourages people to kill a child well after the point of viability.
That should have remained criminal.
I’ve never understood why people care so much about abortion but orphanages and foster care systems run rampant with exploitation and crime and misery, focus on what we can actually do something about maybe rather than weird non-issues that run us in moral circles
Entirely unsurprising the “gender critical” feminists, who position themselves as champions of women and girls are opposed to legislation protecting women’s reproductive healthcare.
[Former EHRC chair signs amendments targeting abortion rights](https://www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/ehrc-chair-abortion-rights/)
Extremely odd that the BBC forgot to mention that. Or maybe not, given their long and well documented history of rabid transphobia.
The headline is a little misleading; to be clear, abortion is not being decriminalised.
If this bill passes abortion will still be inherently a crime – illegal to do unless a specific exception applies.
What this bill does is make it so that no one commits an offence in relation to their own pregnancy. Anyone else involved in an otherwise illegal abortion may still be committing a crime and can go to prison.
One thing I heard a while back that I thought was quite good;
If you want to find where you draw the line on abortion in terms of when it’s okay etc; you simply ask yourself; if you were trying for a baby; at what point in the ~9 months from sex to exiting the birth canal would you consider yourself to be having a child; whatever your answer is that is the latest point you’re allowed to personally allow abortion up to.
Abortion isn’t legal in the UK? Damn… here I was thinking it was just the USA that was backwards
Just abortion after birth for this lot then. Â Fucking fuckheads.