Michael Weir

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Michael Weir is the Scottish National Party MP for Angus.

Contents 1 Abortion 2 Homeopathy 3 References 4 External Links

Abortion

In May 2008 in the abortion amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (now Act), Michael Weir 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.

Homeopathy

In March 2010, following the publication of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee's report "Evidence Check 2: Homeopathy", Michael Weir signed Early Day Motion 908: Science and Technology Committee Report on Homeopathy, which was critical of the report^[2].

In June 2010, Weir signed Early Day Motion 284: BMA Annual Representative Meeting Motions on Homeopathy^[3] which expressed concern at a number of motions to be put forward at the British Medical Association's annual representative meeting calling "for no further commissioning of, nor funding for, homeopathic remedies in the NHS", and "thinks that an integrated NHS, which employs the best from the orthodox and complementary ... could deliver better and more cost-effective outcomes at a time of financial prudence".

References

1. ↑ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200607/cmselect/cmsctech/1045/104502.htm
2. ↑ http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=40517
3. ↑ http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=41216

External Links

• http://www.angussnp.org/
• http://twitter.com/mikeweirsnp
• http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/?pid=11312
• http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/mp.php?id=uk.org.publicwhip/member/1959
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Weir

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