Friday, November 05, 2004



Victory on abortion notification

Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to defeat two amendments to the Care of Children Bill which would have required doctors to notify the parents of teenagers requesting an abortion. Judith Collins' amendment proposing that either parents or a family court judge be informed was defeated 75 - 45. Murry Smith's proposal to prevent any teenager from having any abortion without written confirmation that parents had been advised (in effect, to use notification as a barrier) was defeated 94 - 25. This represents a victory for the status-quo, and a defeat for the relgious wingnuts.

I'll post voting records when I receive them. This is the sort of vote where we want to know who voted how, because it will affect our judgements of MPs regardless of which side we are on.

Update: Forgot the link, dammit.

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