25th Anniversary Of The Implementation Of The Abortion Act

EDM number 1848 in 1992-93, proposed by Ann Winterton on 26/04/1993.

That this House notes with sadness that the Abortion Act first came into force 25 years ago on 27th April 1968; deeply regrets that under the authority of this Act over 3.7 million unborn children have been killed, over 90 per cent. of them for reasons merely of social convenience, that only 151 abortions or 0.004 per cent. of the total were performed in emergency to save the life of the mother; observes that such liberal abortion laws have done nothing to liberate women, or to end the social problems for which they were hailed as the panacea; expresses its sorrow that the United Kingdom law has become a model for liberal abortion laws the world over; accepts that this legislation brings shame upon the House and upon the country; and believes that the time has now come for the working of the Abortion Act to be thoroughly reviewed and for Her Majesty's Government to bring forward proposals for humane legislation which strikes a more acceptable balance between the care of the individual mother, and the inalienable right to life of the unborn child.

This motion has been signed by a total of 57 MPs, 1 of these signatures have been withdrawn.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Ann Winterton	26/04/1993	Congleton		Proposed
Roy Beggs	26/04/1993	East Antrim		Signed
David Atkinson	26/04/1993	Bournemouth East		Signed
David Alton	26/04/1993	Liverpool Mossley Hill		Signed
Michael Alison	26/04/1993	Selby		Signed
Harry Greenway	26/04/1993	Ealing North		Signed
Phil Gallie	26/04/1993	Ayr		Signed
Roger Evans	26/04/1993	Monmouth		Signed
Jonathan Evans	26/04/1993	Brecon and Radnor		Signed
Alan Beith	26/04/1993	Berwick-upon-Tweed		Signed
Vivian Bendall	26/04/1993	Ilford North		Signed
Joe Benton	26/04/1993	Bootle		Signed
Nicholas Winterton	26/04/1993	Macclesfield		Signed
John Watts	26/04/1993	Slough		Signed
Gerard Vaughan	26/04/1993	Reading East		Signed
David Trimble	26/04/1993	Upper Bann		Signed
Richard Tracey	26/04/1993	Surbiton		Signed
Teddy Taylor	26/04/1993	Southend East		Signed
David Sumberg	26/04/1993	Bury South		Signed
Andrew Bowden	26/04/1993	Brighton, Kemptown		Signed
Harold Elletson	26/04/1993	Blackpool North		Signed
Den Dover	26/04/1993	Chorley		Signed
David Lidington	26/04/1993	Aylesbury		Signed
Toby Jessel	26/04/1993	Twickenham		Signed
Andrew Hunter	26/04/1993	Basingstoke		Signed
Martin Smyth	26/04/1993	Belfast South		Signed
Marion Roe	26/04/1993	Broxbourne		Signed
Peter Robinson	26/04/1993	Belfast East		Signed
Barry Porter	26/04/1993	Wirral South		Signed
Elizabeth Peacock	26/04/1993	Batley & Spen		Signed
Peter Luff	26/04/1993	Worcester		Signed
Ken Maginnis	26/04/1993	Fermanagh & South Tyrone		Signed
Seamus Mallon	26/04/1993	Newry & Armagh		Signed
Geoffrey Dickens	26/04/1993	Littleborough and Saddleworth		Signed
Stephen Day	26/04/1993	Cheadle		Signed
Bill Cash	26/04/1993	Stafford		Signed
John Butcher	26/04/1993	Coventry South West		Signed
Rhodes Boyson	26/04/1993	Brent North		Signed
Ian Paisley	26/04/1993	North Antrim		Signed
Eddie McGrady	26/04/1993	South Down		Signed
Thomas McAvoy	26/04/1993	Glasgow, Rutherglen		Signed
Nigel Waterson	27/04/1993	Eastbourne		Signed
David Faber	27/04/1993	Westbury		Signed
Lawrence Cunliffe	27/04/1993	Leigh		Signed
Patrick Cormack	27/04/1993	South Staffordshire		Signed
Michael Neubert	27/04/1993	Romford		Signed
Robert Parry	27/04/1993	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Peter Fry	30/04/1993	Wellingborough		Signed
Michael Grylls	30/04/1993	Surrey North West		Signed
Jimmy Dunnachie	04/05/1993	Glasgow, Pollok		Signed
William McCrea	04/05/1993	Mid Ulster		Signed
Keith Vaz	05/05/1993	Leicester East		Signed
Nigel Evans	06/05/1993	Ribble Valley		Signed
John Hume	18/05/1993	Foyle		Signed
Nirj Deva	17/06/1993	Brentford & Isleworth		Signed
Jamie Cann	24/06/1993	Ipswich		Signed
John Bowis	Unknown			Withdrawn

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