Abortion

(asked on 11th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to Comres polling undertaken in May 2017 which found that 70 per cent of women supported a reduction in the abortion time limit from 24 weeks, and recent advances in perinatal medicine, whether his Department has plans to bring forward legislative proposals to reduce the abortion time limit from 24 weeks in line with the findings of that polling.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 26th January 2022

There are no plans to bring forward legislative proposals to reduce the abortion time limit. It would be for Parliament to decide whether to make any changes to the law on abortion. As with other matters of conscience, abortion is an issue on which the Government adopts a neutral stance and allows hon. Members to vote according to their moral, ethical or religious beliefs.

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