New call to reduce abortion limit
More than 186,000 abortions were carried out last year
Tory MP Nadine Dorries has said she will publish a new version of her bill to reduce the time limit for abortions.
The new version would limit the timescale for terminations to 20 weeks from the current 24 weeks.
Ms Dorries' previous proposals to cut the maximum period to 21 weeks were rejected by MPs in October.
She said her aim was to cut the number of "barbaric" terminations involving lethal injections. Opponents say the plans limit women's freedom.
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The previous bill submitted by Ms Dorries - MP for Mid Bedfordshire - failed by 187 votes to 108 in the Commons.
Announcing the publication of the new version, she said: "Many people are not aware that in order for a late abortion to take place for social reasons, foeticide must first take place; this process can take up to two days and involves a lethal injection being administered into the foetal heart via a cannular through the mother's abdominal wall.
"When a doctor is sure the foetal heart has stopped, the dead foetus is delivered on day two using forceps.
"Clearly this is a barbaric practice and I will not stop campaigning until it is outlawed.
"How can it possibly be right that on one hospital ward we have doctors working to save the life of a baby born at 22 weeks, yet on another a doctor is aborting one of the same gestation?"
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God Bless this determined woman.
