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Miriam Cates warns of surge in 'late-term abortions' following vote to decriminalise act after 24 weeks
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Jun 18, 2025
Miriam Cates has lambasted MPs for voting in favour of decriminalising abortion after 24 weeks, branding the move "barbaric".Speaking to GB News, the former Conservative MP and People's Channel presenter expressed her outrage at the decision and stressed that a mother can now choose to terminate a pregnancy "even during birth".FULL STORY HERE.
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Because Miriam, I know, has got incredibly strong feelings
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Hi, Miriam, about this abortion story. I mean, it just seems... So now in Britain, if you..
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Am I wrong about this? If you wanted to abort your child at eight months, three weeks
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you could do it. Yes, a woman would be lawfully allowed to terminate her own pregnancy at eight weeks, eight months
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or even nine months, or even during birth, and not face criminal prosecution
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And I think a lot of people are pretty shocked that MPs have done this. Just 1% of the public support abortion to birth
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It wasn't in anybody's manifesto. Nobody talked about this before the election
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And a couple of MPs have introduced this amendment into a bill that's completely unrelated
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a bill about policing and crime. So I think many people will find this very, very shocking
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And I think that the arguments put forward by those who seek to decriminalise abortion is that women should not face prosecution when they at a vulnerable point There might be a reason why they ended the pregnancy And of course I think we can all emphasise with that
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But there's no point having a law if there aren't consequences for breaking it
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And I think we can see that if you look at small boats or cannabis or shoplifting, which have all effectively been decriminalised
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And guess what? We see a lot more of it. And I'm afraid that is what we're going to see with these dangerous late term abortions
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Do you think they're murder or infanticide, I suppose, is the technical term
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Well, I think it is hard to conclude otherwise, because the moment a baby's born
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if you killed that baby, that would be infanticide and you'd be imprisoned for life
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And it doesn't make biological or ethical sense that moments before that you could kill that same child and it be lawful
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That doesn't make any sense. And I think what's if we look at the example of other jurisdictions where they have done this decriminalised abortion to birth
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So the three there are three main examples, New Zealand, Victorian, Australia and Canada
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They all seen a dramatic rise in late term abortions And if you think about what actually has to happen to the baby in that circumstance it still has to be delivered They attempt to kill it before birth but it not always successful
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Some babies are born alive and then left to die. And what actually happens to the baby in that circumstance is horrific
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And everybody's supportive of women and women's rights, and there's obviously a strong pro-choice movement in this country
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But there is a baby involved. And the vast majority of people think that beyond the 24 week point, when a baby is fully viable outside the womb, it is immoral and frankly barbaric to end its life
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Yeah. I mean, and where has this come from? Has this literally come from a couple of MPs just just dropping in
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because I did see an interesting tweet about this, which was that basically Labour has used its whopping great big majority
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to push through unbelievably drastic social change in this sense that was never in its manifesto
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And I thought this is the kind of thing I not You know OK We had a referendum with mixed results last time for a lot of people and the way that was enacted was a bit appalling But it not the kind of thing we should have a referendum on really Well I think that right When MPs are seeking to do something
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that's so out of step with public opinion, and has not been put in any manifesto, so there's been
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no public say on it at all, I'd agree. But I know, I think you've put your your finger on it over
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Brexit. This is another example of MPs being incredibly out of step with public opinion
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Brexit is an example. Illegal immigration, the grooming gangs, of course, net zero, where
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Parliament has such different views to the general public that actually they are now
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using that power to impose things on the public that are against the public will. And this
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is the problem with free votes, because this vote was a conscience vote. MPs can vote however
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they like, even though it's part of a broader government bill, they can vote however they like, which means
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MPs can choose not to vote, they can choose not to speak, and no
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political party or government takes a responsibility. They can just say, nothing to do with us, this was brought by backbenches
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and I think that's quite dangerous
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