Find out where your MP candidates stand on abortion and assisted suicide

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Your resource for finding out where MP candidates stand on life issues in the 2024 General Election

The Where Do They Stand 2024 General Election platform is an easily-accessible online tool that provides information on whether your local MP candidates have signed the Both Lives and End-of-Life Protection Pledges – along with voting records on life issues – abortion, assisted suicide and embryo research – for MP candidates who have previously been UK Members of Parliament.

The platform

Comprehensive information on over 2500 candidates 1

Comprehensive information on over 3,500 candidates

The platform provides comprehensive information on over 3,500 MP candidates who are standing in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland in the 2024 General Election.

This includes information on whether your local MP candidates have signed the Both Lives and End-of-Life Protection Pledges, information that has been crowd-sourced from thousands of Right To Life UK supporters around the country who have mobilised to find out where their local candidates stand on abortion and assisted suicide.

Helping people make an informed decision when it comes to voting in 2024

The purpose of the platform is to provide voters around the country with up-to-date information on the position their local MP candidates take on life issues so they can make an informed decision when considering who to vote for this election.

For MP candidates who have previously been members of Parliament, their profile includes information on how they voted during their time in Parliament on over 20 major life issue votes in the UK Parliament.

Empowering people around the country to find out where their MP candidates stand

Where an MP candidate has not yet indicated whether they will sign one of the two pro-life pledges, the platform makes it easy for pro-life people around the country to quickly contact their local candidates and ask them to sign the pro-life pledges.

This helps with encouraging local candidates to sign the pledge, providing more complete information so that voters around the country can make informed decision when it comes to polling day.

Key features – Each MP candidate has a Where Do They Stand profile on the platform

Slide 1 Key details

Key details

Key information on the MP candidates including their name, photo, email address, party and constituency name.

Slide 2 Whether the MP candidate has signed the Both Lives Pledge

Whether the MP candidate has signed the Both Lives Pledge

The Both Lives Pledge outlines three policy changes that are designed to increase protection for babies in the womb and stop pregnancy discrimination for women – policies that will save lives by protecting and supporting both mother and child.

Slide 3 Whether the MP candidate has signed the Do No Harm Pledge

Whether the MP candidate has signed the End-of-Life Protection Pledge

MP candidates who sign the End-of-Life Protection pledge commit to voting against any attempts to introduce assisted suicide or euthanasia and support increased funding for palliative care for people at the end of their lives.

Slide 4 introduce abortion for any reason up to birth

Whether the MP candidate has signed a pledge to support a change in law that would introduce abortion for any reason up to birth

This pledge campaign was run by the UK’s largest abortion provider. Data showing whether this pledge has been signed has been provided to inform constituents and has been publicly reported by the abortion provider.

Slide 5 Voting record on life issues

Voting record on life issues

If the MP candidate has previously been an MP, the profile shows where they have voted on all major life-issues-related votes that have occurred while they were a sitting MP. This includes a simple position summary for that MP with a count of how many times they voted pro-life, pro-abortion or abstained. The voting record then provides details on each of the votes, including when the vote was held, what the vote was on and how that individual voted.

Slide 6 Election results

Voting record on life issues

If the MP candidate has previously been an MP, an outline of the majority they had for each election they have held their seat for.

For MP candidates who have previously been an MP, the platform outlines voting records for major life-issues votes that have occurred

Including votes on the following issues mob

Votes on pro-life proposals

Introducing an explicit ban on sex-selective abortion.

Reducing the abortion limit to 12 weeks, 16 weeks, 20 weeks and 22 weeks.

Introducing a seven-day cooling-off period to ensure that a woman considering an abortion had enough time to consider all the options available to her.

Improving counselling for women contemplating an abortion.

Better information and counselling for parents facing a disability diagnosis in pregnancy.

Introducing a legal right to independent abortion counselling for women from a source that has no financial interest in her decision.

Introducing parental notification for girls 15 and under seeking an abortion.

Votes on pro-abortion and pro-assisted suicide proposals

Introduce abortion on demand, for any reason, up to birth in England and Wales (‘Decriminalisation’).

Legalising assisted suicide.

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