Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill — Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 22 weeks — rejected — 20 May 2008 at 22:00
The majority of MPs voted against adding an new paragraph to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill to change the time limit for the legal termination of pregnancy from 24 weeks to 22 weeks.[1]
A preceding attempt to change the limit to 20 weeks had also failed.[2] 31 MPs voted who voted against changing to 20 weeks, voted for changing to 22 weeks.[3]
- [1] Richard Ottaway MP, House of Commons, 20 May 2008
- [2] Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 20 weeks - rejected, Division 201, House of Commons, 20 May 2008
- [3] Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 22 or 20 weeks, Comparison of votes, 20 May 2008
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 | 27 | 134 (+2 tell) | 0 | 84.9% |
| DUP | 0 | 6 | 0 | 66.7% |
| Independent | 2 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Independent Labour | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Lab | 237 (+2 tell) | 60 | 0 | 85.2% |
| LDem | 32 | 23 | 0 | 87.3% |
| PC | 2 | 0 | 0 | 66.7% |
| SDLP | 0 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| SNP | 3 | 3 | 0 | 100.0% |
| UUP | 0 | 1 | 0 | 100.0% |
| Total: | 304 | 233 | 0 | 85.3% |
Rebel Voters - sorted by party
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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