change edition: The Commons votes on Monday on whether to devolve abortion law to Scotland: to do so would be the thin end of the wedge The anti-abortion protest group Bound 4 Life demonstrates at the US Supreme Court last month. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Saturday 7 November 2015 19.08 EST Campaigners against abortion in Britain are getting louder. On Monday, I fear parliament will play into their hands and vote to make it harder to defend a sensible framework of abortion law that gives women the healthcare they need. Nearly 50 years ago, the Abortion Act put an end to backstreet abortions – an end to the terrible deaths of desperate women and to the imprisonment of doctors who tried to help them, perhaps carrying out abortions for victims of abuse or rape or for women with serious health problems. Since then, there have been repeated attempts to change the law. Some people oppose abortion on principle – perhaps on faith grounds – and I respect those views,
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