MPs' Votes

Darling, Alistair M (Labour)

Edinburgh South West

Majority: 8447

Voting Record

	Voted against "mainly Christian" Religious Education throughout England and Wales in 1988
	Voted against Section 28
	Voted against banning experiments on human embryos in 1990
	Voted for keeping the abortion limit at 28 weeks in 1990
	Voted against making doctors specify the handicap when allowing abortion up to birth in 1990
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for a public register of pro-life doctors in 1990
	Voted for an incitement to religious hatred offence in 2001
	Voted for 'no-fault' divorce
	Voted against an 18 month waiting period prior to divorce
	Voted for removing the ban on homosexuals joining the armed forces
	Voted for reducing the homosexual age of consent to 16
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for allowing greater freedom for religious broadcasting
	Voted for research using human cloning in 2000
	Abstained or was absent on the votes for preventing euthanasia
	Voted for the Civil Partnership Bill
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for extending the Civil Partnership Bill to cover siblings
	Abstained or was absent on the votes for restricting the parental right to smack
	Voted for allowing unmarried and homosexual couples to adopt children
	Voted for the Gambling Bill
	Voted for the Gender Recognition Bill
	Voted against including protection for churches and religious organisations in the Gender Recognition Bill
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for reclassifying cannabis to class C in 2003
	Voted for the Second Reading of the Religious Hatred Bill on 21 June 2005
	Voted for the Third Reading of the Religious Hatred Bill on 11 July 2005
	Voted against the Lords amendments to the Religious Hatred Bill on 31 January 2006
	Voted against keeping the presumption that religious charities provide public benefit
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for increasing the number of regional casinos from 1 to 8
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for requiring practitioners providing contraception or abortion to a child under the age of 16 to inform his or her parent or guardian
	Voted for the Sexual Orientation Regulations which restrict religious liberty
	Voted against the Termination of Pregnancy (Counselling and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2007
	Voted against reducing the abortion limit from 24 weeks in 2008
	Voted against a ban on creating saviour siblings in 2008
	Voted against a ban on creating animal-human hybrid embryos in 2008
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for keeping the requirement to consider a child's need for a father before fertility treatment in 2008
	Voted against providing information and offering counselling to women considering abortion for foetal abnormality in 2008
	Abstained or was absent on the votes for abolishing the blasphemy laws in England and Wales
	Abstained or was absent on the votes for a free speech amendment to the 'homophobic hatred' offence in 2008
	Voted for reclassifying cannabis to class B in 2008
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for a free speech amendment to the 'homophobic hatred' offence in March 2009
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for a free speech amendment to the 'homophobic hatred' offence in November 2009
	Abstained or was absent on the vote for preserving the existing employment freedoms of churches and religious organisations in the Equality Bill

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