MPS vote to decriminalise abortion

17 June 2025

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Parliament has voted to decriminalise abortion for women in England and Wales. This is supposedly in support for women who end their pregnancies outside the existing legal framework, in what is being described by secular campaigners as a “landmark moment.”

The amendment, led by Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi, passed with support of 379 MPs in favour, 137 against. That is an majority of 242.

This is the most drastic overhaul of abortion law in England and Wales since the 1967 Abortion Act. But beneath the applause of activists and professional bodies lies a chilling reality: the amendment marks the removal of the final legal consequence for ending a human life in the womb.

The previous legal boundary allowed abortion up to 24 weeks, with exceptions for serious risk to the mother’s life or severe fetal abnormality. That was already the most extreme abortion law in Europe. Yet under the new provision, women who bypass these rules—including aborting after 24 weeks—will no longer face prosecution.

For a society that claims to be progressive, this vote is profoundly regressive. It regresses to the oldest deception in history:

Gen 3:4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

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The Political Theatre of “Compassion”

MPs were allowed a free vote on this “issue of conscience,” yet their conscience appears curiously selective. Where was the conscience for the viable child who, at 24 weeks or less, could survive outside the womb? Or for human life itself, for a baby three weeks from conception with a beating heart?

Where was the conscience when women like Nicola Packer—whose tragic story was cited as justification—delivered stillborn babies after misusing abortion pills? Parliament has responded not with serious reform of support services, but with a callous shrug: just remove the law.

The rhetoric used in support of the amendment was deeply emotive but logically flawed. Supporters painted a picture of vulnerable women being dragged from hospital beds into police custody. This, though tragic in isolated cases, is not what happened. The solution is not to strip legal safeguards, but to ensure fair and informed medical processes, and to treat women with dignity without removing protection for the unborn.

Baby in the womb dehumanised

Proponents like Stella Creasy even went further, pushing for abortion to be enshrined as a ‘human right.’ It isn’t, not in any international human rights instrument. But what of the rights of the child in the womb? What of the human rights of those who will now be aborted with no legal consequence?

The abortionists have to dehumanise the child in the womb, to pretend he or she is not human. That is why our current campaign, ‘What were you in your mother’s womb?’ is devastating to the abortionists.

True compassion balances care for the mother with protection for the child. It does not abandon one to ‘be kind’ to the other.

Proverbs 31:8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.

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Britain’s History of Abortion Creep

This amendment is not a standalone development. It follows a troubling trajectory in UK abortion policy. In 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, the government quietly introduced the ’pills by post’ scheme – allowing women to abort at home without medical supervision. This temporary emergency measure was later made permanent, despite concerns over safety, coercion, and accountability.

Now, with the passage of Antoniazzi’s amendment, abortion law has effectively been hollowed out. While it technically maintains time limits and regulatory conditions, the removal of criminal penalties for violating them renders these rules toothless. It’s legal in theory, unenforced in practice. It’s back-street abortion, which the proponents of abortion in the 1960s professed to be against.

MPs like Dr Caroline Johnson attempted to stem the tide by proposing simple safeguards like mandatory in-person consultations before prescribing abortion medication. Her amendment was defeated. Meanwhile, campaigners with a vested interest, like Heidi Stewart from BPAS, hailed the vote as a victory against ‘archaic laws.’ But the true arc is toward darkness – not progress.

This is a warning to every believer and church in the UK. We must remember how gradual erosion leads to collapse. In 1967, abortion was legalised under strict conditions. Decades later, it’s a routine service. Now, even the mildest legal restraint is too much. We have moved from reluctant acceptance to celebratory abandon. And the victims lie in silence.

Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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A Call to the Church: Resist, Pray, Speak

As MPs cheer what they call “freedom,” the Church must grieve. This vote is not just a political loss; it is a spiritual defeat. It is a signal that Britain has hardened its heart, not only to God’s law but to His mercy. This generation of lawmakers no longer trembles at the thought of innocent blood being shed—because they have redefined it out of existence.

Now more than ever, Christian leaders and believers must rise—not in rage, but in resolve. We must support crisis pregnancy centres, advocate for pro-life education, and ensure that women in distress are met with love, not lies. We must call out political hypocrisy that celebrates death under the name of care and abandon.

We also call upon Parliament to remember its solemn duty—not to trends, not to activists, but to justice. The unborn are not accidents, burdens, or clumps of tissue. They are made in the image of God. Decriminalising their destruction does not remove the stain of it. It simply makes a nation more comfortable in its rebellion.

Let us pray for the reversal of this amendment. Let us speak truth where lies abound. And let us live out the Gospel that values every life, from womb to tomb. For though Parliament may forget, Heaven does not.

Jeremiah 1:5 Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee.

Read and pray

READ: Exod 18:21; Deut 27:25; Psalm 106:37-38; Prov 14:23; Isa 28:9; Jer 7:28b; Ezek 18:20; Matt 9:36; Luke 1:44; Col 3:12.

PRAY: For the repeal of woke laws.
Pray for children whose lives are cut short owing to a decision no mother should be allowed to make.
Pray for God fearing leaders

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