A rift has opened up between Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman over plans to relax abortion laws.
...The Premier halted moves by the deputy Labour leader to allow time next week for a range of pro-abortion measures to be pushed through under the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
Mr Brown over-ruled her by allocating no more than three hours for abortion to be debated when the Bill reaches its Report Stage on Wednesday.
Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman have clashed over plans to relax abortion laws
A source close to the Government said: 'There have been arguments at the most senior levels of the Labour Party.
'Harriet Harman has been reassuring pro-abortion activists that the amendments would be slipped into the Bill at the very last stage.
'But this can't be done in the timetable that the Government has provided. It must be sticking in her craw.'..
I suppose Brown's real concern is that by allowing Harman's abortion issues to be added to the embryology bill, he would be putting the whole bill at risk. He's certainly not concerned about the morality of abortion or embryology (or same sex marriage, or gay adoption, or preemptive deaths of organ donors etc.etc...)
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