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Majority of Britons favour change in abortion law
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| News Date | Monday, March 21, 2005 08:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | LONDON (AFP) - A majority of Britons believe the country's legal time limit to terminate a pregnancy should be reduced below the current maximum 24th week.
It came as the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said there was a "groundswell of distaste" about the current law, putting pressure on British Prime Minister Tony Blair not to ignore the abortion issue ahead of looming general elections.
A total 59 percent of respondents to a survey said Britain's present abortion time limit should be cut compared with 24 percent who backed the status quo, according to pollsters NOP World, whose findings were published by the Sunday Express newspaper.
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