CUMBRIAN MPs have spoken out after the decision to overturn Roe vs Wade which legalised abortion in the USA.

The Supreme Court removed American women's constitutional right to the procedure and is likely to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. 

Barrow MP Simon Fell described the overturning of RvW as an attack on women's rights.

He said: "Banning abortion does not end the need to end pregnancies for a wide variety of reasons, and without fair and equal access to such treatment it is difficult to see this as anything but an attack on women's rights and those who already face the steepest challenges to accessing healthcare."

South Lakes MP Tim Farron said: “This is hugely sensitive issue - yet what I see in the United States is two sides of a debate who have no interest or desire in understanding the other side, only to demonise those who take a different view.

"I very hope that in the UK we can have a thoughtful debate based on kindness and understanding rather than the toxic culture war taking place across the Atlantic.”