Peter Kearney
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 27 Mar
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I would argue that's a point of utter and complete semantics.
If the law is changed, for example, to decriminalize car theft,
and I come along and I steal your car, and I know I can steal your car because that is no longer a crime to steal a car.
There is no substantive difference between that and the government legalizing car theft.
Either way, I've got your car, you've lost your car, and I will not pay any penalty.
Yeah, absolutely.
It's a continuum, of course.
It's absurd to suddenly draw these arbitrary distinctions, whether it be 24 weeks, which is the current UK legal limit.
And by the way, it's worth focusing on that just for a moment.
The UK at the moment allows abortion for effectively any reason up to 24 weeks.
That is an outlier.
Certainly in the European context, the norm, the average across the rest of Europe would be about half that number, about 12 or 14 weeks.
So you cannot say that abortion laws are not extremely liberal within the UK at the moment.
So the argument that there is some sort of restriction or hindrance simply doesn't hold any water.
But no, you're absolutely right.
We know that the viability of extremely pre-term abortion
babies is increasing all the time.
So if a child can survive at 22 or 23 weeks, which can happen and which does happen, then what is the difference between a child that was born very early at that age and a child that went to full term 40 weeks and was born?
What is the difference?
It's a continuum then.
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