Grouse are safe on Scottish moors until August 12th, but it will be open season all year round on unborn children in Scotland if a group of blood-thristy "experts" get their way!
face On November 14, a report was published by the Abortion Law Review in Scotland. This group of “experts” is made up primarily of abortion providers. They have been meeting regularly over the last year to discuss potential changes to the abortion law in Scotland, culminating in a report making recommendations to the Scottish government. If taken, these recommendations would bring about the largest extension of access to abortion since 1967.
The worst significant proposals relate to legal grounds for abortion and gestational time limits. Proposals include:
- Prior to 24-weeks’ gestation (the current legal time limit), all grounds for abortion be removed and only one doctor’s signature should be required. This means on-demand abortion, for any reason, up to 24 weeks.
- Beyond 24 weeks, abortion be available if two doctors “decide abortion is appropriate.”
- Decriminalize abortion for women acting in relation to their own pregnancy at any gestation.
Taken together, these proposals will effectively legalise abortion up to birth.
Additional proposals include:
- Repeal of The Concealment of Birth (Scotland) Act, which would remove any offence for people concealing the disposal of the bodies of baby’s delivered following abortion at home
- Calls for the Scottish government to include “a duty to provide abortion services” – enshrining in law a “right to abortion.”
The proposal is wildly at odds with public opionion in Scotland and the wider UK. Only a tiny and shrinking minority still support late-term abortion, with widespread support for reduction of the age limit, not its abolition.