Mick Jagger (1966): Pills and breakdowns (I get inspiration from t)hings that are happening around me - everyday life as I see it. People say I'm always singing about. MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY BILL (Hansard, 2. July 1. 96. 6). David Steel(Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles). I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time. First, I am grateful that so many Members have decided to remain here on a Friday in order to support this legislation—and I also recognise that a number have made equal sacrifices to be present in order to register their strong opposition. I echo what you have already said, Mr. Members wish to speak. I hope that it will be a good debate, and I hope to set a reasonable example by being as brief as possible in introducing a Bill of this complexity. David Steel should be introducing this Bill, not because he disagreed with it—he was a wholehearted supporter of it—but because Mr. Steel was rather young. I suppose that this is a risk which we. Standing Orders to exclude Members of Parliament under the age of 3. Private Members' Ballot—and there may be something to be said for that. The discussions which have taken place among the sponsors and supporters of the Bill have been very extensive. It remains my view that it is unfortunate that the practice in the House is for controversial social issues of this kind—issues such as the abolition of capital punishment—to be left entirely to private Members to bring forward. In my opinion, it would be better if the Government, as part of their social reform, were prepared to bring forward these Measures, although leaving them to be decided entirely on a free vote of Members of the House and of the Government. But this is not so, and I therefore had to consider my choice in the light of the present practice of the House. It is no secret that I have campaigned in my constituency and in the rest of the country for an extension of the principles contained in the Highlands Development (Scotland) Act and the use of development authorities for certain areas of the country. Unfortunately, much as I would have liked to introduce something of this kind, it has not been possible to obtain Government support and, quite apart from the practical difficulties involved in any private Member's introducing something for the benefit of his own constituency or his party's propaganda, and also the technical difficulties, there is an issue of principle involved, in that the opportunity to introduce a Private Member's Bill is an almost unique one, which in my opinion should not be used to express a particular point of view for party advantage, perhaps with one eye on the next election. I think that it should be. Statute Book. In England and Wales, the law is governed by the Offences against the Person Act, 1. 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The Scots law therefore recognises that in certain circumstances it may be necessary, in the interests of the mother and in good faith, to carry out an abortion —something which English law does not specifically recognise. Unfortunately, the case was not judged on the issue whether or not it was right, because of the circumstances of conception, for this operation to have been carried out ; the judgment was based on the effects which the continuation of the pregnancy would have on the patient. The judge, in directing the jury, stated that where a medical practitioner was convinced that the effects of a pregnancy on his patient would be to make the woman a physical or mental wreck, he was justified in carrying out the operation. There has been a series of cases. It is left far too much to the judgment of individual practitioners whether they are or are not within the law. Moreover—a point which is sometimes not noted—neither in England and Wales nor in Scotland does the law require any conditions under which this operation may be carried out. This is something that my Bill seeks to introduce. Enhance your IMDb Page. Title: Love Is a Four Letter Word (1966) 6.5 /10. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Diet Pills and Heart Problems. Have you ever taken the diet pills Ponderax or Adifax? Did you take them for more than 3 months? The best-known example of birth defects being caused by hazardous substances in the UK remains the babies born in the late 1950s and early 1960s with deformities. Weight Loss Belt I1966=dietpillsthataresafe PhenQ Diet Pills — Best Weight Loss Pill Review. A healthy weight is the key to a healthy body. Comedian Jerry Lewis is the mystery guest on June 19. Jerry Lewis (1966) romeman01. Subscribe Subscribed Unsubscribe 1,081 1K. The first is under the present law, uncertain as it is. Each year, either under the National Health Service or through private practice, a number of women obtain terminations of their pregnancies within the terms of the present law. But even this is not satisfactory, because the likelihood of any woman, in any given situation, being able to obtain a termination of her pregnancy is to a large extent dependent on where she happens to live and upon the practice of hospitals and medical practitioners in her area. The second is to obtain an abortion by some self- inflicted means. As far as we are able to discover from the investigations made into this subject, this is far and away the largest section of illegal abortions ; indeed, the number of attempted abortions—so far as surveys have been able to discover—is far higher than those which are actually attained. These in many respects are the most dangerous. They have led to the highest number of admissions to. This is limited, of course, to those with the means to pay the substantial fees involved. Any law which means one law for the rich and another for the poor is in itself unsatisfactory and should be examined. I should not like to assert any particular figure, but a recent survey carried out and published only last week by the National Opinion Polls on behalf of the Abortion Law Reform Association assessed that, at a minimum, about 4. Some estimates made by people who have studied this subject go as high as 2. I would not settle for any definite figure, but it is probably somewhere between 4. I should like to trace this. In 1. 93. 1, in a case of a woman charged with murder after she had illegally operated on the mother of three children, who had then died, Mr. Justice Mc. Cardie said. The law on abortion as it exists ought to be substantially modified. It is out of keeping with the conditions that prevail in the world around us. In 1. 93. 5, the National Council of Women added. Abortion Law Reform Association was founded. In passing, I should like to pay tribute to the work of the Association over the last 3. In 1. 93. 5 also—more than 3. Floor of the House, and in the same year the British Medical Association committee reported that it was in favour of a reform of the law, although the report of that year did not go as far as that report which the Association produced recently. No doubt, had it not been for the outbreak of war, the reform which we are seeking might well have been passed by the House of Commons some time ago. The Chairman of the Interdepartmental Committee, the late Lord Birkett, said at the time. One of the great tragedies of war is that, inevitably, it diverts attention from pressing social questions to the grimmer business of the moment. Two National Opinion Polls carried out recently have indicated that three- quarters of the population are in favour of a reform of the law. One was sponsored by the present Minister of Health. Among the sponsors of my Bill are two hon. Members who have previously attempted to introduce this reform. Perhaps the greatest jolt to public opinion and one reason that there is more interest and discussion in the Press, in the broadcasting media and among the public, was the introduction of a Bill in another place by the noble Lord Silkin, to whom also I would pay tribute. The first point to make is that my Bill demands that an operation for the medical termination of pregnancy can be carried out only on the opinion of two registered medical practitioners. In Clause 1, we set out the grounds on which we believe that they should reach that decision. Subsection (1,a) says that a doctor may decide that a termination is justified if the continuance of the pregnancy. This is the major difference between this year's B. M. A. Report and their pre- war report. The recent survey to which I referred earlier found that these grounds for the termination of pregnancy received the highest support from public opinion—9. We here come to the more controversial matter contained in the Bill. This is known, for the sake of brevity, as the. There is great argument as to whether we ought to try t: write into the Bill a. It is important that we should dwell on this matter for a moment. But to do this is to leave too great an uncertainty still in the law. It would leave open far too much the interpretation of the law by medical practitioners and would place too great a responsibility on them. We ought not to demand of the medical profession that they should slip these in under a general Clause relating to physical and mental health. An alternative which was suggested was that if one takes the definition of. But, again, that is not as satisfactory as being absolutely clear what we mean. Paragraph (c) may not be as well worded as many hon. I understand that the Home Secretary has some improvement to suggest in it. I am quite open to all suggestions for improving the wording of the Clause, but I think that we must bear in mind some of the cases which are on the borderline between social, economic cases and purely medical cases. It refers to a pregnant woman being a defective or becoming pregnant while under the age of 1. I believe that all these should be put together in one category. I find it difficult to understand the distinction between, for example, the case of a girl under 1. In fact, in Scots law if one omitted the reference to a girl under 1. Scots law. I believe that both of these should go into. Members would agree that to have a woman continue with a pregnancy which she did not wish to conceive, or in respect of which she was incapable of expressing her wish to conceive, is a practice which we deplore, but the difficulty is to find an acceptable wording which will enable termination to be carried out following sexual offences of this kind but which does not allow an open gate for the pretence of sexual offences.
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