Truemors
In the UK it is legal for termination to be carried out up to 24 weeks of pregnancy be it that two doctors would allow it. Many are also in favor of legalizing abortion.
Well to begin with, I am not in favor of them when it comes to their abortion law. It's like murdering an innocent blood inside you.
The mere fact that there is already a heart beat in th early stages of pregnancy, means that there is already "LIFE" inside the mother.
Women should not need the permission of two doctors to have an abortion, top medical law and ethics specialists say.
The 85 experts have signed a letter which is published in the Times calling for the rules in England, Wales and Scotland to be modernised.
They said the law was outdated and related to an era when "doctors knew best" which was no longer appropriate.
It comes ahead of a debate by MPs next week when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill returns to the Commons.
A cross-party group of MPs have tabled a series of amendments to the abortion law, including changing the requirement for two doctors to sign off an agreement for a termination.
The 1967 Act currently requires a woman to prove that carrying on with a pregnancy would be a risk to her mental or physical health.
The tabled amendment would only require a GP to confirm a woman was under 24 weeks pregnant - the legal time-scale in which abortions have to take place.
The lawyers and ethicists who signed the letter back that proposal.
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