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  Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill - Change abortion limit from 24 weeks to 12 weeks - rejected
  
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  The majority of MPs voted against adding a new paragraph to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill to change the time limit for the legal termination of pregnancy from 24 weeks to 12 weeks.[1]
  
  The 24 week limit is recorded in the Abortion Act 1967.[2]  This limit had most recently been set by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990.[3]
  
  * [1] [http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2008-05-20a.222.0 Edward Leigh MP], House of Commons, 20 May 2008
  * [2] [http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?LegType=All+Legislation&title=abortion+act&Year=1967&searchEnacted=0&extentMatchOnly=0&confersPower=0&blanketAmendment=0&sortAlpha=0&TYPE=QS&PageNumber=1&NavFrom=0&parentActiveTextDocId=1181037&ActiveTextDocId=1181040&filesize=10896 Medical termination of pregnancy], Abortion Act 1967, Clause 1(1)(a).
  * [3] [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/ukpga_19900037_en_3#pb11-l1g37 Amendment of law relating to termination of pregnancy], Human Fertilisatisation Act 1990, Clause 37
  
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