Only one percent of women in the United Kingdom support abortion up to birth. One percent, and clearly these are godless people, but it’s ONLY one percent. Yet the British Parliament is pushing a law that would allow not only abortion up to birth, but even after birth, anyway. You read that right. Clause 191 of the Crime and Policing Bill doesn’t reflect public will or moral reason; it reflects legislative arrogance and pro-abortion profiteering. This is not reform, this is a betrayal of the democratic process and basic decency.
This clause didn’t come through public debate or consultation, nor did it come through a party platform. It crept into a bill about crime and public safety like a thief in the night. With just 46 minutes of debate, Parliament slid in a measure that would strip all legal protections from the unborn, allowing abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy.
Abortion in the UK is already extreme. The law permits it up to 24 weeks, almost six months, and in practice, it’s available far more freely than the law ever intended. Clause 191 takes that extremism to its logical, horrifyingly bloody conclusion. It removes abortion from the criminal code entirely. No time limits. No oversight. No restrictions. A viable child, days from birth, could be aborted without consequence. This is moral collapse.
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And it’s being done behind closed doors. The government didn’t announce it. The media barely covered it, and most of the public has no idea it’s even happening. A proposal this radical should have been debated in every household in Britain, but it was smuggled in quietly under the cover of a bill about law enforcement.
Supporters claim this law will protect women. That’s false. It will expose them to more harm. A previous pro-abortion stunt, the so-called “pills by post” policy, enacted in the UK during the pandemic, has already led to tragedy. In 2023, Carla Foster lied about her pregnancy stage, obtained abortion pills through the mail, and ended the life of her baby at 32 to 34 weeks. A man used those same pills to secretly drug a woman and force an abortion against her will. These are the direct consequences of removing safeguards, and Clause 191 removes every safeguard.
Thankfully, some members of the House of Lords are trying to stop this insanity. Baroness Philippa Stroud wants to reinstate mandatory in-person consultations before abortion pills can be prescribed. Rosa Monckton wants Clause 191 gone entirely. They’re right. And the new Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, should listen and act before this bill becomes a permanent stain on British law.
Clause 191 represents more than bad policy. It’s the complete surrender of moral responsibility. It says the life of a child seconds from birth, has no value. It tells women they deserve less care, less safety, and less truth. It’s an insult to the public and an assault on decency.
If Parliament passes this, it will have done so without a mandate and without honor. It will have traded conscience for convenience. The United Kingdom should be better than this. For the sake of both women and children, Clause 191 must be struck down—loudly, publicly, and without apology.
LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.
