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EDM number 1247A2 in 1997-98, proposed by Joe Benton on 29/04/1998.

leave out from 'effect' to end and add 'expresses, yet again, serious concern at the manner in which abortion virtually on demand is practised under the present law contrary to the promises of its sponsors; notes that two successive Gallup polls among gynaecologists have shown that about 72 per cent. stated that NHS hospitals in which they work or had worked practised abortion on demand thus creating "inequalities" through doctors flouting the law; notes that complaints about inequalities in the NHS have been persistently used by private abortion clinics to justify the enormous numbers of abortions carried out by their doctors practising abortion on demand; recalls the motion passed by a recent BMA junior doctors conference condemning the harrassment of junior doctors exercising their legal right not to be involved in abortion and asking for action to protect them; further notes that as the Social Services Select Committee reported in 1991 many young doctors have had their careers in gynaecology destroyed as a result of their objections to abortion-particularly on demand; and condemns the call for it to be mandatory for all doctors with a conscientious objection to abortion to register thus strengthening the legal framework for a witch-hunt against those opposed to abortion in principle as well as against those doctors who would accept some abortions but, acting responsibly, would object in other cases, such as where the operation could cause damage to the physical or mental health of their patients.'.

This is a ammendment to 1247.

This motion has been signed by a total of 32 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Joe Benton29/04/1998BootleLabourProposed
Jim Dobbin29/04/1998Heywood & MiddletonLabour Co-operativeSigned
David Amess29/04/1998Southend WestConservativeSigned
Ann Widdecombe29/04/1998Maidstone & The WealdConservativeSigned
Ann Winterton29/04/1998CongletonConservativeSigned
Peter Luff30/04/1998Mid WorcestershireConservativeSigned
Marion Roe05/05/1998BroxbourneConservativeSigned
Julian Brazier06/05/1998CanterburyConservativeSigned
Edward Leigh06/05/1998GainsboroughConservativeSigned
Martin Smyth06/05/1998Belfast SouthUUPSigned
William Ross07/05/1998East LondonderryUUPSigned
Eddie McGrady07/05/1998South DownSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Dominic Grieve07/05/1998BeaconsfieldConservativeSigned
Roy Beggs07/05/1998East AntrimUUPSigned
Nicholas Winterton07/05/1998MacclesfieldConservativeSigned
David Atkinson08/05/1998Bournemouth EastConservativeSigned
Frank Roy11/05/1998Motherwell & WishawLabourSigned
William Thompson11/05/1998West TyroneUUPSigned
Teddy Taylor11/05/1998Rochford & Southend EastConservativeSigned
Andy King12/05/1998Rugby & KenilworthLabourSigned
Kerry Pollard13/05/1998St AlbansLabourSigned
Jeffrey M Donaldson13/05/1998Lagan ValleyUUPSigned
Ray Whitney13/05/1998WycombeConservativeSigned
Laurence Robertson14/05/1998TewkesburyConservativeSigned
Kevin McNamara18/05/1998Kingston upon Hull NorthLabourSigned
Ken Maginnis21/05/1998Fermanagh & South TyroneUUPSigned
Ian Paisley24/06/1998North AntrimDUPSigned
John Hayes01/07/1998South Holland & The DeepingsConservativeSigned
Michael Colvin02/07/1998RomseyConservativeSigned
Robert Jackson07/07/1998WantageConservativeSigned
Tom Pendry13/07/1998Stalybridge & HydeLabourSigned
Fiona Jones19/10/1998NewarkLabourSigned

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