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

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 6:23 pm on 28 November 2022.

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Photo of Julian Lewis Julian Lewis Chair, Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament 6:23, 28 November 2022

May I slightly correct what my right hon. Friend has just said? It is not the destruction of life, in many cases, but the destruction of potential life—unless one agrees, as I think my right hon. Friend would, with our hon. Friend Fiona Bruce, that life begins at the moment of conception. However, most people do not agree with that: they believe that life develops during the course of gestation. That is why my right hon. Friend and constituency neighbour, Sir Desmond Swayne, is right when he says that the embryo acquires rights along the way, not from the outset.