Abortion: Maternal Mortality

(asked on 28th May 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of whether there is a correlation between access to abortion and maintaining a low maternal mortality rate; and what the evidential basis is for that assessment.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 4th June 2015

The Department has made no assessment on whether there is a correlation between access to abortion and maintaining a low maternal mortality rate.

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