Abortion: Drugs
Commons · Question 2326 · Tabled 30 Jul 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 2 Sep 2024
Question
Asked by Mary Glindon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that abortion providers meet their obligations to ensure that a woman’s gestational age is accurately assessed before she may be prescribed abortion pills to be ta
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 2 Sep 2024
In accordance with the Abortion Act 1967, home use of early medical abortion pills is only permitted if the pregnancy has not exceeded 10 weeks gestation, at the time the first medicine in the course is administered. Before prescribing abortion medicine f...