Pro-choice? No, this change to abortion law is pro-death

NEVER had high hopes for this Labour Government. But I underestimated just how dire things could get. 1 never imagined hundreds of Labour MPs would audaciously masquerade moral regression as a form of progress.

- Esther Krakue

Yet here we are. On Tuesday, Tonia Antoniazzi’s amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill passed with minimal fanfare, after only two hours of debate and 379 MPs nodding along like bobbleheads.

This abomination of an amendment means a woman can now do anything to her unborn child, right up to the moment of birth, without legal consequence. Absolutely nothing — not deceit, not concealment, not even a late-term abortion of a viable baby — will make her criminally liable, as long as the foetus is her own.

So, cases like that of Carla Foster, who aborted her daughter at 32 weeks, will no longer be subject to legal penalty. The foetus, however developed or viable, no longer has a right to life. In a nation beset by crumbling infrastructure, anaemic economic growth, ballooning public debt, sputtering services and unmanageable immigration levels, is this the hill our politicians have chosen to die on?

A morally deranged bill dressed up as a victory for women’s rights? You honestly couldn't make it up.