A MOTHER from Devizes has said MP Danny Kruger's comments on abortion were "exactly spot-on". 

Mr Kruger said in the House of Commons last month that does not believe “that women have an absolute right to bodily autonomy” on abortion.

He faced significant backlash for his comments, including protests in Devizes and Marlborough. 

He later clarified his comments and said he does not wish to dictate what a woman does with her body.

But Mariah Morton, 64, says his comments were "exactly spot on."

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Ms Morton feels that the MP has faced an "excessive amount of backlash".

Danny Kruger stated that he does not believe the decision should be made entirely by the woman herself when another life is involved - which Mariah thinks he was right to say.

Mariah has a disabled son who is now 30 years old, and has seen first hand the benefits of being a mother and the joy that a child can bring.

She told this newspaper: “One doesn’t really know what life can bring about.

“There’s always social reasons why people choose to have abortion, based on their careers, fear and uncertainty a lot of the time and all these things can be tackled.

“I was speaking with someone the other day who said abortion is a scar and can be very distressing for the woman.

“In case of health reasons, I understand this but that is for a very small percentage of cases.”

When asked what the implications for women’s rights would be if the option to have an abortion was taken away in this country, Mariah said: “A woman has got the right to be respected for her body, and work, and they can do whatever they want to do but in this particular aspect I don’t think it’s right."

Kruger put out a statement on his Twitter page shortly after a protest took place in Devizes, saying he had been misunderstood

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He said: "What I said in the Commons was that ‘in the case of abortion’ a woman’s ‘absolute right to bodily autonomy… is qualified by the fact that another body is involved.’

"This is the basis of the law as it stands, which recognises that somewhere along the journey towards birth the foetus or baby acquires rights of its own. 

"The fact is that all autonomy - all liberty - is qualified. We are not absolutely free because we are not absolutely alone.”

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