People Before Profit believes that it is a woman's right to choose and that we should trust women to make choices about their bodies, lives and futures. That is it; anything less is not good enough as far as we are concerned. However, we understand the logic behind the Social Democrat's Bill. It takes us at least a step forward from where we are in that it is essentially trying to make provision in line with the review that was promised when the referendum was passed, which the Government has and which it has refused to act on. On that basis, we are happy to support the Bill. The three-day waiting period is an insult and is exacerbating the difficulties in accessing termination that women in the country are having to endure. The criminalisation is an absolute disgrace. Associating women's right to have a termination and to control their own bodies with some sort of criminal act is an absolute disgrace and should be struck from the Statute Book. Regarding the issue of fatal foetal abnormality, the fact that women and couples, when they have a wanted child but when it has a fatal foetal abnormality, have to go to Britain for abortions is absolutely disgraceful. My ex-partner and I lost a child to fatal foetal abnormality. We are strongly of the view that it is up to parents as to how they deal with that situation. If they feel they cannot go through the trauma and they need a termination rather than face it, that is their choice, and it should happen here. The idea that people are to be sent abroad still is an absolute disgrace.

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