The campaign for abortion ignores the fact that there are two lives, not one, writes Jacob Rees-Mogg

But babies at 24 weeks are pulled limb from limb to be aborted, to be killed. Disabled babies, particularly, are at risk. Disability in the modern age is thought of as something that you should help people with.You should make provision for. You should look after them, but not whilst they’re in the womb.

That’s an excuse for aborting them right up to full term. That’s what the ancient Romans did. They put babies out on the dung heap to die. They left them exposed. They thought their lives were worthless.

We are more civilised than that. We recognise that life is valuable. Life is precious. Life should be treasured. And if we did that, we would actually be maintaining our population level.