Abortion: Drugs

(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to end the temporary approval allowing home use of both pills for early medical abortion in line with the lifting of remaining covid-19 restrictions.


Answered by
Maggie Throup Portrait
Maggie Throup
This question was answered on 2nd March 2022

We have always been clear that the approval which enabled home use of both pills for early medical abortion would be temporary and was in response to the unprecedented situation with the COVID pandemic. Due to the success and impact of the national vaccination and booster programme, face to face abortion services will return by 29 August 2022. A six-month extension of the temporary approval has been made to enable a safe and reliable return to these arrangements.

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