Submitted on Thursday 14th June 2018
Published on Thursday 21st June 2018
Current status: Closed
Closed: Friday 21st December 2018
Signatures: 26
Change Abortion law to a period of 12 weeks instead of 24 weeks.
The Irish are proposing to introduce legislation that will restrict Category C abortions to 12 weeks, whilst we continue to allow abortions up to 24 weeks - far beyond the time when a baby can survive outside the womb. This needs changed.
In 2017 there were 194,668 legal abortions carried out in England & Wales (ie just over 745 abortions per working day). Of these, 98% (185,448) were carried out under category C. Of these, 99.5% were reported as being performed because of a risk to the woman’s mental health. In 13 cases, an abortion was performed under category C because of complications of pregnancy. Source - Abortion Statistics, England and Wales: 2017, Department of Health & Social Care
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