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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Aine Fox

MPs set to vote on decriminalising abortion in major debate

Pro-choice campaigners are urging MPs to vote to decriminalise abortion, but those against a change in the law have warned ‘unborn babies will have any remaining protection stripped away’ - (PA Archive)

Pro-choice advocates are calling on MPs to vote in favour of decriminalising abortion as part of amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill, which is expected to be debated and voted on this Tuesday.

This renewed effort follows persistent demands to repeal sections of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, a 19th-century law, mirroring the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland in 2019.

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