Tell your MP to vote against legalising sex-selective abortion on Tuesday (17 June)

Stella Creasy MP and Tonia Antoniazzi MP have tabled amendments to the Crime and Policing Bill that would legalise sex-selective abortion (Further details on the proposed law change are available here).

MPs will vote on these proposed law changes on Tuesday, 17 June.

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I’m writing to you as a concerned constituent to ask you to vote against amendments NC1 and NC20 to the Crime and Policing Bill.

Tonia Antoniazzi MP and Stella Creasy MP have tabled amendments (NC1 and NC20) to the Crime and Policing Bill, which, if they become law, as you may have seen in the media, would legalise sex-selective abortion in England and Wales.

Abortion for sex-selective reasons is currently illegal in England and Wales (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/313459/20140509_-_Abortion_Guidance_Document.pdf#page=10).

Tonia Antoniazzi MP’s amendment (New Clause 1) would disapply existing criminal law relating to the accessing or procurement of abortion care from women acting in relation to their own pregnancy, meaning it would no longer be an offence for a woman to have an abortion for any reason, including for the purposes of sex-selection.

The explanatory note to New Clause 1 confirms that it would apply at any gestation, meaning a woman could perform her own abortion on sex-selective grounds throughout all nine months of pregnancy.

Stella Creasy MP has tabled a separate amendment (New Clause 20) that would repeal all existing laws that prohibit abortion in England and Wales (Sections 58 and 59 of the Offences Against the Person Act, along with the Infant Life (Preservation) Act).

Section 1 of the Abortion Act would be reworded so that a pregnancy “can only be terminated when” the listed conditions are met, but no new offence is created. With no underlying crimes left to “authorise” or “excuse”, sections 1-4 remain on the statute book in name only; they carry no enforceable legal weight.

This would mean that a woman could choose to have an abortion for any reason throughout all nine months of pregnancy without committing any offence.

New Clause 20 goes further than New Clause 1 as it would also allow doctors to perform abortions throughout all nine months of pregnancy for sex-selective purposes.

Subsection 9 of New Clause 20 would prevent the current or any future government from using regulations to introduce restrictions on sex-selective abortion. If this amendment becomes law, making the legal grounds for abortion redundant, those grounds could only be restored - or new restrictions on sex-selective abortion introduced - through new primary legislation.

Both these amendments would risk an increase in women being pressured to have an abortion because they are expecting a girl, and an increase in the number of sex-selective abortions in England and Wales, likely leading to significant social problems as seen elsewhere.

Further information is available in the briefing here: https://stopgendercide.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/political-briefing-cpb-amendments-nc1-nc20-and-sex-selective-abortion-16-june-2025.pdf

Please urgently confirm whether you will be voting against NC1 and NC20.

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