Information between 30th January 2024 - 26th October 2026
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12 Sep 2025, 10:39 a.m. - House of Lords "bringing in changes to legislation which were matters of conscience, like, for example, the abortion bill or the end of capital punishment or " Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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20 Jun 2025, 12:04 p.m. - House of Commons "abortion bill, universality of " Rt Hon Sir Edward Leigh MP (Gainsborough, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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20 Jun 2025, 1:29 p.m. - House of Commons "the chairmanship of Sir John Peel, to consider the abortion bill, and the commission to consider the laws on homosexuality. Something which " Rt Hon Wendy Morton MP (Aldridge-Brownhills, Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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27 Mar 2026, 11:34 a.m. - House of Lords "the abortion Bill, which was found to actually only apply to direct " Baroness Berridge (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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27 Feb 2026, 12:52 p.m. - House of Lords "abortion bill, which went through at that stage. One of the concerns " Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Conservative) - View Video - View Transcript |
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27 Feb 2026, 1:20 p.m. - House of Lords ">> Noble and learned Lord Stern encyclopaedic knowledge of the statute book. Can you tell us what went wrong with the abortion bill that morphed without parliamentary " Lord Falconer of Thoroton (Labour) - View Video - View Transcript |
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
175 speeches (33,963 words) Committee stage Friday 27th March 2026 - Lords Chamber Mentions: 1: Baroness Berridge (Con - Life peer) mentioned the case from Scotland, where they considered the conscientious objection clause in the abortion Bill - Link to Speech |
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
195 speeches (50,468 words) Committee stage Friday 27th February 2026 - Lords Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) I voted in the early 1980s for amendments to Lord Steel’s Abortion Bill, which went through at that stage - Link to Speech 2: Lord Hamilton of Epsom (Con - Life peer) learned Lord’s encyclopaedic knowledge of the statute book, can he tell us what went wrong with the Abortion Bill - Link to Speech |
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Crime and Policing Bill
85 speeches (20,334 words) Committee stage: Part 2 Monday 2nd February 2026 - Lords Chamber Northern Ireland Office Mentions: 1: Lord Cameron of Lochiel (Con - Life peer) difficult and intricate issues to cover.It is interesting that, when Parliament considered the Abortion Bill - Link to Speech |
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
188 speeches (55,560 words) 2nd reading Friday 12th September 2025 - Lords Chamber Home Office Mentions: 1: Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con - Life peer) Private Members’ Bills bringing in changes to legislation on matters of conscience, such as the abortion Bill - Link to Speech |
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill
210 speeches (33,783 words) Report stage Friday 20th June 2025 - Commons Chamber Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Edward Leigh (Con - Gainsborough) We have heard about the many hours on the abortion Bill, and the universality of clinical acceptance - Link to Speech 2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) A medical advisory committee, under the chairmanship of Sir John Peel, considered the Abortion Bill, - Link to Speech |
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill (Twenty-eighth sitting)
86 speeches (17,896 words) Committee stage: 28th sitting Tuesday 25th March 2025 - Public Bill Committees Ministry of Justice Mentions: 1: Lewis Atkinson (Lab - Sunderland Central) Bernard Braine, the Member for South East Essex, who said in the 1967 debate on the David Steel abortion Bill - Link to Speech |
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Oral Answers to Questions
136 speeches (9,143 words) Wednesday 9th October 2024 - Commons Chamber Cabinet Office Mentions: 1: David Davis (Con - Goole and Pocklington) In 1967, the Government of the day gave time to allow David Steel’s Abortion Bill to go through. - Link to Speech |
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Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG Document: Annual Report 2023-2024 Found: Decriminalisation of abortion – In 2021 Baroness Barker’s bill reached 2 nd reading stage in HoL - Abortion Bill |
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Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG Document: Annual Report 2020-2021 Found: late abortions for cleft lip, cleft palate and clubfoot; retweeted Clare Murphy on Fiona Bruce’s abortion bill |
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Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG Document: Annual Report 2019-2020 Found: Please find relevant text enclosed at Appendix 174 Abortion Bill [HL], 15th January 2020 90 APPG |
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Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG Document: Annual Report 2015-2016 Found: Special Commission’s final report recommended a number of changes in the law and proposed an abortion bill |
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Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG Document: Report from a cross-party study tour to Sierra Leone (2015) Found: Various issues were discussed following presentations, including the latest Sierra Leone’s Abortion Bill |
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Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG Document: Annual Report 2014-2015 Found: appendix 69 12th May: Baroness Jenny Tonge received information on the proposed new Spanish abortion Bill |
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Global Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights APPG Document: Annual Report 2013-2014 Found: enclosed briefing as appendix 63 12th August: All members received information on the new Irish abortion Bill |
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Friday 14th November 2025
Population Health Directorate Source Page: Review of Abortion Law in Scotland Expert Group Report Document: Review of Abortion Law in Scotland (PDF) Found: Abortion Bill (Bill 276). 103 The submission suggested that such an offence would provide an effective |