MPs are arguing two options to reduce abortion in England and Wales.

Labor MPs Tonia Antoniazi and Stella Crace have amended rival amendments to the crime and policing bill, both aimed at abolishing police investigation into abortion under the 164 -year Victorian Act.

Abortion is considered an issue of conscience in Westminster, and MPs will not be ordered to follow a party line and can vote according to their beliefs.

Abortion is currently legal for 24 weeks in Great Britain with the approval of two doctors, but after that point the abortion is allowed only in strict circumstances.

Intentionally ending a pregnancy outside these circumstances, in 1861, there is a criminal offense in England and Wales under the crime against the Person Act, which gives maximum punishment of life in jail.

Only three women were convicted of illegal abortion between 1861 and November 2022, when the law was changed when women were changed to allow women to take abortion pills at home for 10 weeks of pregnancy.

This record starts since the most miscarriage coincides with both, with about one million in the latest figures, and one Unprecedented number of police inquiry Under suspicion of abolishing pregnancy illegally.

The record collected by the UK’s largest abortion services found that at least 100 women have been examined for abortion in the last five years, and six have appeared in courts.

The Royal College of Obstatrisan and Gynecologist (RCOG) has called for a law change and supported the amendment from MP Antoniazi for Gower, which aims to prevent women from investigating, arresting, or imprisoned to end their own pregnancies.

They have argued that the investigation “is inhuman and prolonged and women are forced to bear them, often exceptionally weak”, which includes domestic misconduct, human trafficking, or women who have given birth prematurely.

Their amendment will maintain punishment for medical professionals and violent partners who eliminate pregnancy outside the current law.

Antoniazi’s amendment has gained support from main abortion providers, as well as the royal society of pyouschiastists and nurses.

However, the Society for the Protection of unborn children called it a “extreme and dangerous proposal” that effectively reduces abortion “.

Stella Crace, MPs of Walthamsto, want to go ahead, increase the access to abortion as a human right and “ensure that all those involved in ensuring that women can use safe and legal abortion”.

Crace has argued that Antoniazi’s amendment would not stop the officers who do not stop the partners of those who investigate the partners of the partners or give abortion medics, and will not stop the demands to give women evidence as part of that process “.

Cree’s amendment is publicly supported by 108 MPs – but abortion providers, including British pregnancy advisory service, have stated that the amendment is not the right way to achieve “generational changes”.

The Society for the Protection of unborn children have described the revision of Crace as “even more extreme” compared to Antoniazes, saying: “There is no way to bring an abusive partner that causes the death of an unborn child.”

The amendment of Antoniazi will be voted first – if it is approved, there will be no vote on the alternative proposal of the Kreesy.

Determining their arguments, Antoniazi stated that about 99% of the miscarriage of pregnancy occur before 20 weeks, leaving only 1% of women “under desperate conditions”.

He highlighted a series of cases where women were arrested for illegal abortion crimes and urged MPs to “need these women care and support, not criminalization” to support her amendment to identify “.

“Each of these cases is a traxy, which is capable of our old abortion law,” he said.

“Originally passed by an all-man Parliament selected by men alone, this Victorian law is rapidly used against weak women and girls.”

Traditional Unionist Voice MP Jim Alastair, MP of North Entry, intervened to ask whether “there was any other area of ​​law to take life where the guards of the criminal law have been removed”.

Responding, Antoniazi said that its amendment would not change how abortion services are provided and the limit of 24-week will remain.

He said: “What is this public interest? It is not justice, it is cruelty and it is finished.”

Gover MP, Conservative Shadow Health Minister Dr. Also criticized an amendment of Caroline Johnson, in which a pregnant woman would require a person consultation before it is legally prescribed to eliminate her pregnancy.

Crace argued that the amendment of Antoniazi did not go far away as abortion would still be criminalized under some circumstances.

Saying that abortion laws were attacked around the UK and the world, he asked why the MP wants to maintain “in any size or form,” instead of doing the best practice worldwide for all our components, “in any shape or form,” why do they want to maintain in any shape or form.