Abortion: Gender Selection

(asked on 27th May 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to meet Jeena International, Karma Nirvana and the Sharan Project and other women's groups to discuss their experience of dealing with UK women who have had sex-selective abortions.


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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 1st June 2015

All requests for meetings with Ministers are dealt with on a case by case basis giving due consideration to parliamentary business. The Government is clear that sex selective abortions in the United Kingdom are illegal.

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