Abortion: Drugs
Commons · Question 16128 · Tabled 26 Nov 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 4 Dec 2024
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of reversing whether the decision to allow women to take (a) mifepristone and (b) misoprostol at home to terminate a pregnancy.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 4 Dec 2024
The Government has no plans to assess the potential merits of reversing the decision to allow women to take mifepristone and misoprostol at home to terminate a pregnancy. Abortion in England and Wales is governed by the Abortion Act 1967, which defines th...