Now that parliament has decided to decriminalise abortion, it is interesting to see what the ancients made of the matter ... But in 1869Pope Pius IX ended all debate, asserting that ‘ensoulment’ occurred on conception.
Ms Creasy is behind an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill which would remove all legal prohibitions on abortion up to and including during birth, even if the baby is fully capable of surviving outside the womb.
No one was especially interested in Jolyon Maugham’s take on next week’s abortion amendments, but the Babe Ruth of the bar has waded into it all the same ... effectively tear apart the 1967 AbortionAct.