An “expert group” undertaking a review of abortion law in Scotland, commissioned by Humza Yousaf when he was Scottish First Minister, has today released sweeping recommendations for extreme changes to Scotland’s abortion laws.
They have recommended that the Scottish Government scrap the current 24-week time limit for abortion – and abortion be available on social grounds right up to birth in Scotland.
Unborn babies could legally have their lives ended throughout all nine months of pregnancy – right up to when the baby is about to be born.
This law change would also make sex-selective abortion legal – allowing a baby to be aborted simply because she is a girl.
The proposed changes in the law in Scotland go far beyond the already extreme current proposals to change abortion law in England and Wales, which would be limited to amending the law for women performing their own abortions.
Scotland would be left with one of the most extreme abortion laws in the world.
This closely follows more than 30 organisations, supported by Green Party MSP Gillian Mackay, launching a major campaign to make abortion up to birth legal in Scotland.
An organisation called Engender is running this campaign, and guess who funds this organisation? Scottish taxpayers.
Engender’s latest accounts show that 99% of their funding came from the Scottish Government. Over the last three years, they have received over £1.3 million of taxpayer funding from the Scottish Government – including over half a million pounds in the latest year alone.
TAKE ACTION
This evening, we have launched No To Abortion Up To Birth Scotland – a campaign we have set up exclusively to stop this extreme proposal.
I now need you to take urgent action to stop abortion up to birth from becoming law in Scotland.
If you are based in Scotland, please click the button below now to take 30 seconds to contact your MSPs, using our easy-to-use tool, and ask them to oppose the abortion up to birth law change.
If you are not based in Scotland, you can still help. Please forward this email on to everyone you know in Scotland so they know about this extreme proposal and can take action to stop it.
Once you have emailed your MSPs, we then need you to get the word out further, so we can ensure a very large number of people contact their MSPs. Please forward this email on to as many family members and friends as you can.
