Headie Aster / 18 June 2025 / Categories: People, Politicians, Opinions

Abortion Is Decriminalised UK against Reform Party Wishes

Voted for overwhelmingly by Lib Dem’s and Labour M.P.s

I didn’t have my own image of Westminster or the Houses of Parliament why you’ve got Trafalgar Square instead, signifying another epic battle in UK history.

I was very pleased to see the bill to end the locking up of vulnerable women seeking an abortion brought forward by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, the female M.P. For Gower in Wales elected in 2017 who tabled the so-called "New Clause One" (NC1) has passed overwhelmingly by 379 to 137.

Showing the world the UK will not follow Donald Trump and the US Supreme Court who overturned Roe Vs Wade in June 2022 when it comes to abortion rights for women.

In the US the Supreme Court, a body of judges nominated by the President (confirmed by the senate) the checks and balances system, who serve for life, basically eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion, effectively returning the authority to regulate or ban abortion to individual states. As a result, some states have banned or severely restricted abortion access for all women something I view as more misogynistic than “Christian” in principle. And whilst I

Understand personal faith plays a big part for many in this controversial and possibly divisive issue, my opinion is based on common sense as a women not any religious affiliations.

It was very interesting for me to see Reform UK oppose the bill by all but one M.P. Nigel Farage abstaining from the vote.

Calls for abortion law change had grown louder after two women, Carla Foster and Nicola Packer had been the subject of two very high profile legal cases in the UK, Carla Foster was jailed for an illegal abortion, her sentence later suspended after being forced to take medication to end her pregnancy by an abusive partner. Nothing happened to him and Nicola Parker who was investigated and faced the threat of jail after suffering a stillbirth in hospital and later being cleared of any wrong doing by a jury. The only terrible part of all this these two women had to suffer so horrifically at the hands of a state supposedly there to protect them before action was taken to ensure this doesn’t happen to anyone else on British soil.

I am delighted to see M.P.s in the UK pretty unanimously standing up for a woman’s right to choose in what has become a contentious issue especially after Roe Vs Wade being overturned in the US after 47 years.

For me this was a massive backwards step for all women globally still being subjected to brutalisation, FGM, and being married off as children when in a civilised and democratic country where women supposedly share the same equal rights as men, are subjugated in this way.

In the UK where we have a multicultural society from many different religious traditions it has been suggested the decriminalisation of abortion will lead to more gender selection within some communities where families prefer male heirs to female. And this could be true however in my view restricting the rights of the many to stop the few doing something abhorrent based on prehistoric beliefs about the value of one sex over the other only keep us stuck in an antiquated social template where women have to rely on men for their security and survival.

Whilst I am delighted to see our sometimes Victorian laws being thrown out in favour of a more just common sense approach to protect the most vulnerable people in our society as a whole I did not vote Labour and don’t think this government has the skills or experience to navigate and represent the public’s desire for peace and I think their should be much stronger positioning against war of any kind and votes cast like Brexit about our position and participation in it.

Government leaders who instigate war are in my mind no different from the “terrorists” they label, accuse and use to justify actions that are in effect exactly the same.