Serious Crime Bill — New Clause 1 — Making Clear Sex-Selective Abortion is Illegal — 23 Feb 2015 at 21:00
The majority of MPs voted against making clear that sex-selective abortion is illegal.
MPs were considering the Serious Crime Bill[1].
The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was:
- Nothing in section 1 of the Abortion Act 1967 is to be interpreted as allowing a pregnancy to be terminated on the grounds of the sex of the unborn child.
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Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
| Party | Majority (No) | Minority (Aye) | Both | Turnout |
| Con | 77 (+1 tell) | 149 (+2 tell) | 2 | 76.2% |
| DUP | 0 | 4 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Green | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50.0% |
| Lab | 178 | 27 | 1 | 79.8% |
| LDem | 29 (+1 tell) | 12 | 0 | 75.0% |
| PC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SDLP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SNP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 66.7% |
| UKIP | 0 | 2 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 289 | 199 | 3 | 77.1% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by constituency
MPs for which their vote in this division differed from the majority vote of their party. You can see all votes in this division, or every eligible MP who could have voted in this division
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