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Jim Shannon

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Wellbeing of Future Generations
Tuesday 24th March 2020

(4 years, 1 month ago)

Commons Chamber
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Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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Yes; my hon. Friend makes a very important point.

Jim Shannon Portrait Jim Shannon (Strangford) (DUP)
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Does the Secretary of State not agree that the attempt to alter the abortion regime through the Coronavirus Bill is not the right use of those measures? Any change to abortion legislation, which is almost the last protection for our unborn children, deserves adequate scrutiny and appropriate debate, which is not possible right now. Will he, for the record, assure me that no changes to that legislation, which regulates life and death, will be made in this way through stealth and opportunism?

Matt Hancock Portrait Matt Hancock
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I repeat an answer that I have given before: there are no proposals to change the law around abortion.

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