London, England, May 7, 2008 / 02:14 am
A British Minister of Parliament has proposed decreasing the time period for legalized abortion, saying Britain’s permissive abortion laws put it at risk of becoming Europe’s “Abortion Capital.”
According to BBC News, Tory MP Nadine Dorries, a former nurse, has proposed an amendment to the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill to lower the upper limit on legal abortion from 24 weeks to 20 weeks.
“Britain has 200,000 abortions a year, or 600 a day. That is just too many, we must slow down on abortion,” Dorries said. While saying she respected “a woman’s right to choose,” she said babies born at 24 weeks are increasingly surviving.
“It is now time to adopt a more moderate, commonsense approach to abortion,” she said.