Nigel Farage has mentioned it’s “utterly ludicrous” to permit abortion as much as 24 weeks and the legislation is “totally out of date”.
The Reform UK chief mentioned he believes abortion and assisted dying are “issues of personal conscience”.
“And but, if a baby is born prematurely at 22 weeks, your native hospital will transfer heaven and earth and doubtless reach that little one surviving and happening and residing a standard life.
“So I believe there is an inconsistency in the law. I believe it is totally out of date.”
He additionally mentioned he would depart it as much as individuals to “agree with that or disagree with that”.
However he added: “I think our current situation on this is irrational.”
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Mr Farage made the feedback after calling for the two-child profit cap to be scrapped and to make it simpler and cheaper for individuals within the UK to have extra youngsters.
It isn’t the primary time Mr Farage has mentioned the legislation on abortion needs to be checked out.
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Abortion, free speech and US-UK relations
When unveiling former Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns as Reform’s newest recruit in November, he mentioned parliament needs to be allowed extra time “to debate things that people at home talk about” when requested concerning the assisted dying invoice, which he voted in opposition to.
Unprompted, he mentioned: “Is 24 weeks proper for abortion, provided that we now save infants at 22?
“That to me would be worthy of a debate in parliament but should that be along party lines? I don’t think so.”
Mr Farage has beforehand labored with the US-based Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an influential group on the US Christian proper and a part of a world community of evangelical teams behind the repeal of Roe v Wade within the US.
The US Supreme Courtroom ruling that gave ladies the constitutional proper to abortion was overturned in 2022.
ADF’s UK arm has publicly argued in opposition to decriminalising abortion.
Mr Farage was quoted in an announcement from the ADF in November – when he commented on abortion – as saying “the crackdown on free expression within the UK is becoming very sinister”.
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