Opponents of the decriminalisation of abortion have vowed to fight on to block it after MPs approved the biggest change in the law in more than five decades last night.
Almost 300 Labour MPs helped push through an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill that means women will will no longer face prosecution for aborting their own baby for any reason and at any stage up to birth.
The biggest change to the law concerning women's reproductive rights since the 1967 Abortion Act went through with a majority of 242 after most Lib Dem MPs also backed a proposal by Labour's Tonia Antoniazzi.
She told the Commons the current 'Victorian' abortion law in England and Wales is 'increasingly used against vulnerable women' and said her amendment was a 'once-in-a-generation' opportunity to change the law.
But the relaxation of the law was backed by just eight Tories, including one shadow minister, shadow education secretary Laura Trott.
