Tomorrow, MPs will debate whether to prevent abortion providers from counselling women
seeking an abortion. The motion – put forward by Tory backbencher Nadine Dorries as an
amendment to the Health and Social Care bill – is being opposed by the government, and pro-choice groups are backing a rival amendment, which reinforces the status quo. The amendement’s author, Lib Dem MP Julian Huppert says:
And a YouGov poll released today shows that, were the public to be voting instead of MPs, they would be much more likely to back Huppert’s amendment than Dorries’.“The present system which allows women access to evidence-based guidance works, therefore I cannot see why we need to change it. I do not want to see us opening the door to anti choice organisations which could prevent women making their own decision on such a momentus issue.”
Fewer than one-in-four people support changing the law to prevent charities like BPAS and Marie Stopes from providing counselling, while 40 per cent oppose it.
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