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WATCH: Ben Leo erupts in fury after Lords vote in favour of decriminalisation of abortion
Mar 25, 2026
Watch Ben Leo's reaction to the House of Lords voting in favour of the decriminalisation of abortion in the UK.Last week, the peers approved legislation, first proposed by MP Tonia Antoniazzi, to end police investigations into abortion, amending the Crime and Policing Bill. The old legislation was in accordance with a 164-year-old Victorian law - which has, as of late, culiminated in more than 100 prosecutions under the Offences Against the Person Act 1861.Members of Parliament voted through the legislation last year. WATCH BEN LEO'S REACTION ABOVE
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There's no better judgment of a nation's morality than how it treats its own children
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And in a damning diamond of just how low the UK has fallen in recent months, our politicians have just voted to allow women to abort their unborn babies until full term
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Nine months, if they choose. That means children like my son, born six weeks early and now a happy and thriving six-year-old
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could be snuffed out just because a woman wants it so. This is my boy, just hours after being born in 2019
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He fit in the palm of my hand and spent two weeks in special care as a precautionary measure
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He was fine. He's now a fit and thriving six-year-old who loves cars, racing and
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regrettably, wants to be a Formula One racing driver. I guess I better start saving some money
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Just days ago, the House of Lords gave its final backing to one of the most radical changes to
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British law in generations, the decriminalisation of abortion for women and England and Wales
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MPs voted overwhelmingly last summer to remove women from criminal liability under
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old Victorian era laws and now with the Lord's approval it's hurtling towards becoming law
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itself. Let me be clear this isn't about compassion or women's health this is about erasing any legal
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guardrail around the taking of innocent human life right up to the moment of birth. Under the
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abortion act of 1967 abortions were permitted up to 24 weeks with exceptions beyond that for grave
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reasons and I think most sane people including me happily accepted that but now a woman who ends her own pregnancy at any stage for any reason cannot be investigated arrested or prosecuted Just think about that Doctors and professionals may still face consequences for assisting in late cases
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but the woman herself is completely untouchable. Nothing can happen to her
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This means that, in practice, we're moving toward abortion on demand, up to birth
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with no criminal deterrent for the mother who chooses it. a fully formed baby viable outside the womb like my son capable of feeling pain could be terminated
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at home with pills or other means and the law would turn a blind eye to the woman responsible
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no questions asked no accountability this is not progress this is moral surrender
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and from a christian perspective and i know many of you share this view the bible is unequivocal
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life is sacred from the moment of conception in fact you don't even need to be religious to
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understand that this is consciously wrong. Every child is known by God, formed by his hand, bearing
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his image. And to treat that life as disposable, to remove even the threat of law when it's snuffed
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out, is to defy the creator himself. Which is why I think this entire movement and piece of
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legislation is totally demonic. And if you don't think this is part of a wider spiritual war on
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the sanctities of life, family and children, well, just look at how the anti-life lobby behave
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themselves here in America And I think it was the late great Charlie Kirk who put the debate about abortion in the simplest of terms Take a look
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Being poor is not a good reason to kill your kid. You should have thought of that before you had sex
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I have a question for you. When does life begin? Life begins at, I would like to say, the development of the brain
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So you're okay with cutting off then all abortions at six weeks
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No. Why? Because that's when brainwaves start. Because I've already talked about how..
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Then what? Abortions happen for a lot of different reasons. Oh, OK. So as long as you have a good reason, murder's cool
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Well, the pro-abortion lobby claims all this is liberation, freeing vulnerable women from fear of prosecution
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But let's look at the reality. Women in crisis pregnancies need support
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They need counselling, alternatives, not a system that quietly encourages them to end a life
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and then washes its hands of them. We've seen many cases where women were coerced, misled about gestational age or acting in desperation
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Decriminalisation doesn't protect them. It abandons them to isolation and maybe even regret
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True care, I argue, would expand adoption services, maternity support and real alternatives
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But instead we're normalising the destruction of the unborn as health care
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Where is the sanctity of life? Now compare this to the United States, where I am right now
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After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022 the decision returned to the states Many have enacted strong protections such as heartbeat laws limits at six weeks 15 weeks or viability States like Texas Florida and others have banned most abortions after the first
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trimester or earlier, saving countless lives. Yes, it's controversial. Yes, there are exceptions for
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the mother's life, but the direction is clear. Protecting the unborn where possible and America's
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moving toward life while Britain is racing in the opposite direction. And again, I argue it's
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totally evil. While some American states fight to defend the voiceless, our parliament in
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Westminster has voted to silence any legal voice for the child in the womb. It's a stark
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tragic contrast. In the land that once led the world in Christian values and human dignity
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we're now embracing a regime where late-term abortion faces less scrutiny than ever before
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My friends, this isn't about controlling women. It's about defending the most vulnerable among us
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The unborn cannot speak. They cannot vote. They cannot lobby. They rely on us, parents, mothers, fathers, to stand for them
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If we fail, who will? I urge every viewer with a conscience, with a sense of morality
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Just pray. Speak out. Contact your MP, your peers, if this isn't final. Demand better. Demand laws that value both mother and child
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because when we devalue the tiniest life, we devalue all life. And this vote isn't a victory for freedom
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It's a defeat for humanity and a battle lost in the war of good versus evil
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I'm Ben Leo. This is GB News Originals. Speak soon
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