--- title: Parliament votes to legalise unsafe and dangerous abortion date: 2025-06-18T15:52:00+01:00 author: Lisa Curry canonical_url: "https://www.eauk.org/news-and-views/parliament-votes-to-legalise-unsafe-and-dangerous-abortion" section: Articles --- Share [](https://www.facebook.com/dialog/share?app_id=1769260916495219&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eauk.org%2Fnews-and-views%2Fparliament-votes-to-legalise-unsafe-and-dangerous-abortion) [](https://x.com/intent/tweet?text=Parliament%20votes%20to%20legalise%20unsafe%20and%20dangerous%20abortion&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eauk.org%2Fnews-and-views%2Fparliament-votes-to-legalise-unsafe-and-dangerous-abortion) [](https://www.facebook.com/dialog/send?app_id=1769260916495219&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eauk.org%2Fnews-and-views%2Fparliament-votes-to-legalise-unsafe-and-dangerous-abortion&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eauk.org%2Fnews-and-views%2Fparliament-votes-to-legalise-unsafe-and-dangerous-abortion&display=popup) [](mailto:?subject=Shared%20from%20Evangelical%20Alliance&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eauk.org%2Fnews-and-views%2Fparliament-votes-to-legalise-unsafe-and-dangerous-abortion) #### Yesterday parliament voted to legalise and in effect facilitate women acting outside of a medically regulated framework to terminate the life of their unborn child at any stage of pregnancy up to birth. Dangerous and late-term, self-induced abortion has been legitimised. Instead of the law protecting both lives in pregnancy, all unborn children have lost legal protections and women have been abandoned by those tasked and paid to provide care. Some women will risk their own lives and health in the name of ​‘autonomy’. Others will be coerced into ​‘choosing’ by abusers. Abortion providers will face little accountability for women they will never see or meet in person; posting out abortion pills after a telemedicine consultation. The tax payer will pay for a statutory regulated framework that will fail to protect women from unsafe abortion provision, with utter disregard for unborn life, even babies who can survive outside the womb. Sponsored[](#) [ ![](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271%27%20height%3D%271%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E) ](https://www.oakhill.ac.uk/admissions/open-days) During the parliamentary debate Julia Lopez MP said: “As MPs, we are not here simply to express our opinions of an ideal world or even to focus only on highly distressing cases; we are legislators, and no greater legislative duty exists than to make sure that what we do in this House does not lead to unintended consequences in the real world for the most vulnerable. “In two hours of debate on a Tuesday afternoon, we are being asked to rewrite a profound boundary in British law that protects the unborn child. That is not responsible lawmaking; it is a procedural ambush. It is telling that not even the promoters of decriminalisation in this House can agree on the form it should take. That ought to make each one of us pause, because it speaks to the challenge of moving beyond principle to real-world application.” A biblical lament grieves for the present situation yet also acts in the hopeful assurance that God will deliver and redeem. In his book *Beauty Will Save the World*, Brian Zahnd says, ​“Jesus saves the world from false freedom, from freedom as a euphemism for power, from freedom as a justification for killing.” > A biblical lament grieves for the present situation yet also acts in the hopeful assurance that God will deliver and redeem.” We have seen what happens when the church stays silent and allows the intentional taking of life to be described as compassion, and in her silence acquiesces to a pro-abortion culture which dehumanises and discards our children, and dehumanises and devalues women in fertility, pregnancy and motherhood. Born, or unborn, regardless of sex, ability, health or beauty, the circumstances of conception or whether we are wanted or chosen every human being has inherent dignity value and worth because we are made in God’s image. Both lives matter. The time for silence is over. Every abortion ends a human life. Abortion often hurts women and does little to solve the underlying systemic issues which cause any woman to feel driven to terminate her own child’s life. We all deserve better than abortion. The battle against a culture of death and for a culture which is truly just, humane and compassionate must continue. --- [ ![What the decriminalisation of abortion really means in practice](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271%27%20height%3D%271%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E) ![C45f4f1f 80d2 4277 9a41 a03f3c1a0d6a](https://eauk.org/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,quality=90,width=400,fit=cover/https://cdn.eauk.org/c45f4f1f-80d2-4277-9a41-a03f3c1a0d6a.png) ](https://www.eauk.org/news-and-views/what-the-decriminalisation-of-abortion-really-means-in-practice) [#### What the decriminalisation of abortion really means in practice ](https://www.eauk.org/news-and-views/what-the-decriminalisation-of-abortion-really-means-in-practice) Evangelicals must speak up and speak out for both lives; women and the unborn [ ![Mark Gilmore](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271%27%20height%3D%271%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E) ](/author/mark-gilmore) [ Mark Gilmore ](/author/mark-gilmore) 12 June 2025 [](https://www.eauk.org/news-and-views/what-the-decriminalisation-of-abortion-really-means-in-practice) [ ![Both Lives](data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271%27%20height%3D%271%27%20style%3D%27background%3Atransparent%27%2F%3E) ![Untitled design 83](https://eauk.org/cdn-cgi/image/format=auto,quality=90,width=400,fit=cover/https://cdn.eauk.org/Untitled-design-83.png) ](https://www.eauk.org/what-we-do/initiatives/both-lives) [#### Both Lives ](https://www.eauk.org/what-we-do/initiatives/both-lives) A pro-women and pro-life movement – imagining a people and place that values the life and health of women and unborn children, and pursues the wellbeing of both [ Find out more ](https://www.eauk.org/what-we-do/initiatives/both-lives) [](https://www.eauk.org/what-we-do/initiatives/both-lives) **Sign up to our monthly newsletter to receive the latest news, articles and resources from the Both Lives team straight to your inbox.** Loading... ## Both Lives Sign up to receive the latest news, articles and resources from the Both Lives team straight to your inbox. 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