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Abortion: Drugs

Commons · Question 44415 · Tabled 7 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 23 Apr 2025

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Asked by Andrew Rosindell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that (a) gestational ages of pregnancies are accurately recorded in cases without ultrasound scans and (b) abortion pills are not sent in the mail to women beyond

Answer

Answered by Karin Smyth, 23 Apr 2025

Pregnancy duration can be assessed from the first day of the last menstrual period (LMP). Advice from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists is clear, that most women can determine the duration of their pregnancy with reasonable accuracy by...