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  Serious Crime Bill - New Clause 1 - Making Clear Abortion on the Basis of Gender is Illegal
  
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  @ MP voted aye to make clear that sex-selective abortion is illegal.
  @ MP voted no against making clear that sex-selective abortion is illegal.
  
  The majority of MPs voted against making clear that sex-selective abortion is illegal.
  
  MPs were considering the Serious Crime Bill[1].
  
  The proposed new clause rejected in this vote was:
  
  :Nothing in [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1967/87/section/1 section 1 of the Abortion Act 1967] is to be interpreted as allowing a pregnancy to be terminated on the grounds of the sex of the unborn child.
  
  
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  * [1] [http://services.parliament.uk/bills/2014-15/seriouscrime.html Parliament's webpage on the Serious Crime Bill]
  
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