Nigel Farage has mentioned it’s “utterly ludicrous” to permit abortion as much as 24 weeks and the regulation is “totally out of date”.
The Reform UK chief mentioned he believes abortion and assisted dying are “issues of personal conscience”.
“And yet, if a child is born prematurely at 22 weeks, your local hospital will move heaven and earth and probably succeed in that child surviving and going on and living a normal life.
“So I consider there’s an inconsistency within the regulation. I consider it’s completely old-fashioned.”
He additionally mentioned he would depart it as much as folks to “agree with that or disagree with that”.
However he added: “I think our current situation on this is irrational.”
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Mr Farage made the feedback after calling for the two-child profit cap to be scrapped and to make it simpler and cheaper for folks within the UK to have extra kids.
It’s not the primary time Mr Farage has mentioned the regulation on abortion needs to be checked out.
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Abortion, free speech and US-UK relations
When unveiling former Tory minister Andrea Jenkyns as Reform’s newest recruit in November, he mentioned parliament needs to be allowed extra time “to debate things that people at home talk about” when requested in regards to the assisted dying invoice, which he voted towards.
Unprompted, he mentioned: “Is 24 weeks right for abortion, given that we now save babies at 22?
“That to me can be worthy of a debate in parliament however ought to that be alongside occasion traces? I do not assume so.”
Mr Farage has beforehand labored with the US-based Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), an influential group on the US Christian proper and a part of a worldwide community of evangelical teams behind the repeal of Roe v Wade within the US.
The US Supreme Courtroom ruling that gave ladies the constitutional proper to abortion was overturned in 2022.
ADF’s UK arm has publicly argued towards decriminalising abortion.
Mr Farage was quoted in a press release from the ADF in November – when he commented on abortion – as saying “the crackdown on free expression within the UK is becoming very sinister”.
