There has been a recent parliamentary vote on whether women wanting an abortion should have to recieve independant counselling before the abortion is carried out. Critics of abortion clinics say the counselling currently offered is biased because they are run as businesses - this claim is denied by the clinics.A human foetus at 24 weeks gestation - abortions can be carried out up to this date in the UK.
Last year, 202,400 were carried out in the U. K.
Abortion is a highly contentious issue with many Pro-Life groups, including the Catholic Church, considering the killing of an unborn baby to be the same as killing any other person. They see it as murder.
MPs however, rejected the call to offer women independent counselling by 368 votes to 118 so tha law remains unchanged.
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Independent counselling could have been something that woman considering an abortion really need. It's not exactly an easy decision to make and you need people to help you through it, it can also be very traumatic in the majority of circumstances. If it's going to help and support vulnerable women then why has this offer been rejected?
ReplyDeleteI also think that the independent counselling shouldn't have been rejected.
ReplyDeleteIndependent councelling could help women who are pregnant if they think that abortion is the only way out
abortion no matter how you put it is the killing of a life i think that they should be given counsling because there are alot of women out there who have long term effects years even decades after the abortion has taken place
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