It has been announced that the Abortion time limit will stay at 24 weeks after MPs voted against reducing it and it’s said that they rejected options ranging from 12 to 22 weeks in a series of votes. Tory MP Nadine Dorries who was a former nurse, who proposed a 20-week limit, said that a baby’s rights should be considered at the point it had the “chance of life”. But pro-choice campaigners said there was no evidence of improved survival rates. The closest vote, on a 22-week limit, was defeated by 304 to 233.

This was the first major challenge to Britain’s abortion laws since 1990, when the legal limit was lowered from 28 weeks to 24 weeks. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and most of the cabinet voted to keep the existing 24 limit, as did the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. What is wrong with these people it should be lowered what are they thinking?

Ruth Kelly, Des Browne and Paul Murphy who are Catholic cabinet ministers voted for the lowest option to be 12 weeks and I have to agree with them. David Cameron who is the Conservative leader voted for a 20 week limit and then for a cut to a 22 week limit which was backed by most of the shadow cabinet.

Health Minister Dawn Primarolo has said that there was no evidence that requires the abortion laws to be changed and said changing it would just force a small number of women seeking late abortions to go elsewhere.

A bid to cut the limit to 12 weeks was opposed by 393 votes to 71 and a further attempt to get the limit down to 16 weeks was defeated by 387 votes to 84.

Sometimes there is a very good reason why you need to abort your baby but other times it is just a form of contraception. I don’t agree with it to be honest I have two children and there are so many people out there that find out that they can not have children in the future because of past abortions.

What do you think? Should the limit be changed to 12 weeks?

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