Amendment 10

Part of Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill - Committee – in the House of Lords at 6:15 pm on 15 July 2019.

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Photo of Baroness Tonge Baroness Tonge Non-affiliated 6:15, 15 July 2019

I am also a mother of three children and a grandmother of seven, so I am well aware of the value of human life, and so are very many of my patients. We are surely not going to have the whole debate about where life does or does not begin, and where souls enter foetuses—please do not let us have that debate again. All I am saying is that, whatever the situation, we are talking about a woman’s body. The foetus is dependent on the woman’s body and cannot live alone, and if a woman does not want that to happen, she has the right to choose. That is all I am saying.