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Granny Smith
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During the Commons debate:
"There is so much talk in this house about human rights, about the rights of the vulnerable. But in my view there is just one overwhelming, fundamental human right - and that is the right to life. In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is your mother's womb."
Edward Leigh, Con, Gainsborough
During the Commons debate, the proposer of a 20-week limit, former nurse Ms Dorries, told MPs how she had witnessed a "botched" termination while working on a ward.
"A little boy was aborted into a cardboard bed pan which was thrust into my arms," she said.
"As I stood and looked in that cardboard bed pan this little boy was gasping, through mucous and amniotic fluid for his breath and I stood with him in a sluice, in my arms in a bed pan, for seven minutes while he gasped for his breath and a botched abortion, which became a live birth, became a death seven minutes later.
"And I knew at that moment, while I stood with that little boy in my arms that one day I would have the opportunity to stand and defend babies like him, because what I thought we were committing that day was murder."
Former nurse Ms Dorries
"There is so much talk in this house about human rights, about the rights of the vulnerable. But in my view there is just one overwhelming, fundamental human right - and that is the right to life. In modern Britain the most dangerous place to be is your mother's womb."
Edward Leigh, Con, Gainsborough
During the Commons debate, the proposer of a 20-week limit, former nurse Ms Dorries, told MPs how she had witnessed a "botched" termination while working on a ward.
"A little boy was aborted into a cardboard bed pan which was thrust into my arms," she said.
"As I stood and looked in that cardboard bed pan this little boy was gasping, through mucous and amniotic fluid for his breath and I stood with him in a sluice, in my arms in a bed pan, for seven minutes while he gasped for his breath and a botched abortion, which became a live birth, became a death seven minutes later.
"And I knew at that moment, while I stood with that little boy in my arms that one day I would have the opportunity to stand and defend babies like him, because what I thought we were committing that day was murder."
Former nurse Ms Dorries