Abortion

(asked on 11th July 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he has any plans to bring the time limit for abortions on grounds of disability into line with abortions on other grounds.


Answered by
Jackie Doyle-Price Portrait
Jackie Doyle-Price
This question was answered on 17th July 2017

As with other matters of conscience, abortion is an issue on which the Government adopts a neutral stance. It is accepted Parliamentary practice that proposals for changes in the law on abortion come from backbench members.

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