Peter Kearney
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 27 Mar
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And another group that are in there, again, unusual, is the bishops of the Anglican Church.
Bishops of the Church of England, a number of them sit in the House of Lords as well.
So that's the background.
There are over 800 members.
And you spoke about the debate in the lower chamber, that was the House of Commons, lasting some 46 minutes, which most people quite rightly said was appalling and ridiculous.
How on earth can you deal with any sort of legislation as ridiculous?
enormous as this in such a short time.
In the case of the House of Lords, it only lasted for two hours.
And I should say within the two hours, this provision was a small part of that.
So as I say, there are over 800 members of the House of Lords, but only around 300 even turned up for the vote last week.
And of that 300, 185 voted for this provision and 148 voted against.
Also unusual, this was an amendment
to a crime and policing bill.
So this piece of legislation wasn't actually or specifically about abortion.
It wasn't about time limits.
It wasn't about life issues in general.
It was about crime.
And it was about policing.
And an individual member of parliament tagged on this amendment.
And the amendment was to decriminalize abortion
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