I applaud MP David Amess's stand on abortion (Mar 31), but even if Parliament lowers the upper limit for legal abortion to 22 weeks it will just encourage people to have abortions earlier.
Amendments will still be accepted allowing late abortion under certain circumstances, as happened in 1990 when the upper limit for allowing abortions was lowered, but then an amendment was accepted which allowed abortion up to birth for babies with handicaps.
This amendment left me shocked, because it encourages the discrimination and destruction of disabled babies at the earliest possible moment.
No matter how small or vulnerable a little one is, he/she is still a human being and still as worthy to live as the fitter ones among us.
Seven million babies have been aborted in England and Wales since 1967.
That's seven million too many. The only solution is to repeal the Abortion Act and to disallow any amendments saying otherwise.
Sue Jamieson
Church Park Road
Pitsea
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