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There are fears that Mr Alan Johnson MP, the new health secretary, will support wider provision of abortion and other anti-life practices.
Soon after becoming a member of parliament in 1997, Mr Johnson signed two parliamentary motions, one defending an alleged ‘woman's right to choose’ abortion and another condemning ‘restrictive abortion laws.’ In 2000, Mr Johnson voted in favour of destructive stem cell research on cloned embryonic children. In 2004, he voted against pro-life amendments to the Mental Capacity Act, which enshrined in statute law euthanasia by omission.
Anthony Ozimic, political secretary of The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, commented: ‘We fear that, if abortion is introduced into the debate when the government's draft Human Tissue and Embryos Bill comes before parliament, the government will give at least tacit support to amendments to extend abortion provision.
‘Whether or not the government grants a free vote to backbench MPs, past parliamentary experience proves that signals of the government's opinion heavily influences the way backbench MPs vote. Pro-life parliamentarians should therefore not attempt to open up the abortion law on the floor of Parliament whilst a government-backed pro-abortion majority holds sway, lest there be a repeat of the 1990 defeat of the pro-life lobby.’
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