Abortion, Contraception And Respect For Human Life

EDM number 954 in 1989-90, proposed by Richard Alexander on 08/05/1990.

That this House, while recognising the broad consensus for a new legal limit up to which the termination of pregnancies may be carried out, reasserts its belief that the Abortion Act in no way diminishes the moral responsibility of individual men and women to prevent unwanted pregnancies; stresses the need for more relevant sex and morality education in schools and calls for a fresh campaign of public information about the use of contraception and family planning; is however deeply concerned that the way in which amendments were voted on at the end of the debate on abortion during the Committee Stage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill denied honourable Members the opportunity to debate the amendment to the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929, which in effect, makes the possibility of a foetus in certain circumstances being born alive after an abortion much greater than previously the case; restates its view that all life, however handicapped or damaged, must be respected and valued; and having time and again voted against the death penalty, would wish to be equally charitable to the foetus capable of life outside its mother's womb.

This motion has been signed by a total of 1 MPs.