Following the repeal of Roe v Wade, which protected the right to abortion in the US, Dominic Raab has ruled out backing an amendment to his proposed British Bill of Rights to establish access to abortion as a human right.

Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, first proposed tabling an amendment to the bill as a result of growing concern about abortion access across the world.

Speaking in a parliamentary debate on the US Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday, Creasy said: “Roe v Wade gave American women a constitutional right to have an abortion. Currently here in the UK, only women in Northern Ireland have their constitutional right to an abortion protected as a human right.”

“Bringing in a human rights framework would inevitably progress the argument that healthcare is not a criminal matter,” she added.

Roe v Wade: why the UK government is refusing to add the right to abortion to the British Bill of Rights