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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Eve Livingston

UK anti-abortion campaigners running against MPs who back decriminalisation

Stella Creasy, Labour candidate for Walthamstow, out campaigning for the general election in her constituency
Labour MP Stella Creasy says she wants a police presence at hustings if independent candidate Ruth Rawlins were to participate. Photograph: Nicola Tree/Getty Images

Anti-abortion campaigners are running as independent candidates in the general election against prominent MPs seeking re-election who supported decriminalisation.

The seats of Labour’s Diana Johnson and Stella Creasy and Conservative Caroline Nokes are all being targeted by anti-abortion activists. The three proposed or supported recent amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill which would have stopped prosecutions for anyone ending a pregnancy in England and Wales.

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