Abortion

(asked on 18th March 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the contribution of the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health of 31 October 2012, Official Report, column 93WH, what his Department's definition of viability is for the gestational time limit for abortion.


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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 23rd March 2015

In 1990, Parliament decided that the legal time limit for most abortions should be 24 weeks.

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