Abortion

The abortion laws will change, and I believe it will be during the next Parliament.  Any abortion raises moral issues, but I do think the earlier the abortion the less acute are those moral issues.  Therefore, I have three parts to this campaign. 

First of all, I believe the morning after pill should be readily available, and it should be available without questioning over the chemist’s counter.  I do not believe you should need to get a prescription for it. 

Secondly, I think in those very early weeks, it is enough to have one doctor agreeing to an abortion, but as you get into the pregnancy, I believe, as we have now, two doctors must agree.  Then, after seventeen weeks, for it is at this stage babies begin to kick and probably feel pain, I think we should make abortion more difficult, by having three doctors who actually have to interview the mother, rather than simply sign a piece of paper. 

At each stage it is a moral issue, but it seems to me to be less of a moral issue if the cells are just beginning to subdivide, and much more of a moral issue if the potential child can feel pain, and I think our law should reflect that difference.