Francis Maude

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Francis Maude is the Conservative MP for Horsham. He first entered Parliament in 1983 as MP for North Warwickshire.

Contents 1 Abortion 2 Evidence-based Policy 3 Same-Sex Marriage 4 References 5 External Links

Abortion

In May 2008 in the abortion amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (now Act), Francis Maude voted for the abortion time limit to be lowered to 20 weeks against scientific and medical consensus which is currently 24 weeks^[1]. After four separate parliamentary votes on varying time limits, the majority of MPs voted to keep the abortion time limit at 24 weeks, in keeping with scientific and medical consensus, hence no abortion amendments were added to the bill.

Evidence-based Policy

June 2012: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18542426

Same-Sex Marriage

May 2013: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/10067763/Why-I-am-convinced-the-same-sex-marriage-bill-is-the-right-thing-to-do.html

References

1. ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmsctech/1045/104502.htm

External Links

• http://www.francismaude.com/
• http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/mr-francis-maude/115
• http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/?pid=10423
• http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/1642
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Maude

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