Post by Madhatter on May 22, 2008 2:15:47 GMT
Moves to lower the time limit on abortion from 24 weeks have been rejected by MPs at the end of a high-charged debate on controversial social legislation.
news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91211-1316639,00.html
Roman Catholic Cabinet ministers Ruth Kelly, Des Browne and Paul Murphy voted for 12 weeks, a move proposed by the leading Catholic Conservative MP Edward Leigh.
During the Commons debate, the proposer of a 20-week limit, former nurse Ms Dorries, told MPs how she had witnessed a "botched" termination while working on a ward.
"A little boy was aborted into a cardboard bed pan which was thrust into my arms," she said.
"As I stood and looked in that cardboard bed pan this little boy was gasping, through mucous and amniotic fluid for his breath and I stood with him in a sluice, in my arms in a bed pan, for seven minutes while he gasped for his breath and a botched abortion, which became a live birth, became a death seven minutes later.
"And I knew at that moment, while I stood with that little boy in my arms that one day I would have the opportunity to stand and defend babies like him, because what I thought we were committing that day was murder."
I'm not sure what to make of this, any thoughts? Should a mother have any choice at all?
news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91211-1316639,00.html
Roman Catholic Cabinet ministers Ruth Kelly, Des Browne and Paul Murphy voted for 12 weeks, a move proposed by the leading Catholic Conservative MP Edward Leigh.
During the Commons debate, the proposer of a 20-week limit, former nurse Ms Dorries, told MPs how she had witnessed a "botched" termination while working on a ward.
"A little boy was aborted into a cardboard bed pan which was thrust into my arms," she said.
"As I stood and looked in that cardboard bed pan this little boy was gasping, through mucous and amniotic fluid for his breath and I stood with him in a sluice, in my arms in a bed pan, for seven minutes while he gasped for his breath and a botched abortion, which became a live birth, became a death seven minutes later.
"And I knew at that moment, while I stood with that little boy in my arms that one day I would have the opportunity to stand and defend babies like him, because what I thought we were committing that day was murder."
I'm not sure what to make of this, any thoughts? Should a mother have any choice at all?
