Abortion
(asked on 9th October 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what guidance his Department offers on what constitutes serious handicap for the purposes of the Abortion Act 1967.
This question was answered on 12th October 2017
Serious handicap is not defined in the Abortion Act 1967. An assessment of the seriousness of a fetal abnormality should be considered on a case-by-case appraisal and is a matter for the expert judgement of the two doctors involved in assessing the request for an abortion. In doing this the doctors will take into account all available clinical information.