Legal Rights to Access Abortion — [Sir Graham Brady in the Chair]

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 4:30 pm on 28 November 2022.

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Photo of Julian Lewis Julian Lewis Chair, Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament 4:30, 28 November 2022

The hon. Lady is incredibly generous in giving way. I applaud the tone in which she is presenting this case. The problem that some of us are grappling with is that, in America, what appears to have happened is that the Supreme Court had its political complexion changed and therefore came to a different decision. I, for one, regret the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Having said that, it therefore seems strange, as my neighbour, my right hon. Friend Sir Desmond Swayne, has said, to suggest that we should move away from the system that we have where Parliament decides what should and should not happen on a matter of policy of this sort, and hand it over to judges for whatever interpretation of the law they may choose to come up with.