Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what services are available to women seeking an abortion during the covid-19 outbreak.
Abortion services remain open and are defined as an essential service. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have put in place two temporary measures in England to limit the transmission and ensure continued access to abortion services: women and girls are able to take both pills (Mifepristone and Misoprostol) for early medical abortion up to 10 weeks gestation in their own homes, without the need to first attend a hospital or clinic (subject to eligibility); and registered medical practitioners are able to prescribe both pills for the treatment of early medical abortion up to 10 weeks from their own homes.