Unborn Protections Should at Least Match Those Given to Animals, Says Lord’s Bill

A bill proposing the establishment of a committee to assess the sentience of unborn babies and embryos should afford them rights equivalent to those enjoyed by animal foetuses, according to a Conservative peer. On Friday the House of Lords received a second reading of Tory peer Lord Moylan’s proposals for a bill to “make provision for a Foetal Sentience Committee to review current understanding of the sentience of the human foetus and to inform policy-making.” Supporters of the Foetal Sentience Committee private members bill claim there is an urgent need to monitor sentience as “legal protection for dog foetuses from seven weeks onwards, but there is no equivalent legislation for human foetuses.”...