By: Christopher Peter

Christopher Peter
Wed, 25 Jun 2025 08:14:11 +0000

A poorly argued article full of contradictions. Furedi says decriminalisation doesn’t matter because, don’t worry, late stage abortions are still illegal – you just won’t be punished for doing them. Do you think we’re stupid? Most people can see perfectly well that’s legalisation in practice.

And it doesn’t matter because so few women were being prosected anyway. So, if the existing laws were capable of allowing a balanced and nuanced view of individual cases, why was the change necessary?

It is all ideological, of course. Nothing to do with compassion. (Where is the compassion for babies who would live if they were allowed to be born?) The UK already had among the most “liberal” abortion laws in the world, but that was never enough for some. And so a fundamental change with significant legal and ethical repercussions, and with no evidence of popular support or consensus, is sneaked in with no proper debate by radical Leftists in this government. See also assisted dying.