My next thought: oh, good on the Prime Minister to prevent that crazy lunatic from pushing his pro-life agenda!
It’s actually not clear that someone who condemns sex-selective abortion is doing so for pro-life reasons. He could just as well do so because he thinks upper class white people who don’t do sex-selective abortion are morally superior to immigrants who do sex-selective abortions. Those bad immigrants who don’t adopt white upper class values when they move to the UK should be punished.
Your US political background mind killed you in a way where you might not even understand what the conflict was about.
The status quo in the UK is that sex-selective abortion is illegal but that it’s hard to enforce forbidding abortion based on that motivation.
In the US the Supreme Court ruled abortion in a way that prevent lawmakers to treat different cases of abortion differently. In Europe that’s not the case.
Nearly all EU law gives some weight to the interest of a unborn child. For a good utilitarian there no good reason to avoid doing so. The question here is whether the interests of a parent to have a son instead having a daughter outweigh the interest of the unborn to be born.
The UK prime minister also doesn’t push to change UK law in a way to make sex-selective abortion legal.
It’s actually not clear that someone who condemns sex-selective abortion is doing so for pro-life reasons. He could just as well do so because he thinks upper class white people who don’t do sex-selective abortion are morally superior to immigrants who do sex-selective abortions. Those bad immigrants who don’t adopt white upper class values when they move to the UK should be punished.
Your US political background mind killed you in a way where you might not even understand what the conflict was about.
The status quo in the UK is that sex-selective abortion is illegal but that it’s hard to enforce forbidding abortion based on that motivation.
In the US the Supreme Court ruled abortion in a way that prevent lawmakers to treat different cases of abortion differently. In Europe that’s not the case. Nearly all EU law gives some weight to the interest of a unborn child. For a good utilitarian there no good reason to avoid doing so. The question here is whether the interests of a parent to have a son instead having a daughter outweigh the interest of the unborn to be born.
The UK prime minister also doesn’t push to change UK law in a way to make sex-selective abortion legal.