Pregnancy

(asked on 18th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government whether they have plans to increase protections to the lives of unborn children.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 30th June 2025

Existing criminal offences relating to foetuses are contained in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 and the Infant Life Preservation Act 1929. The Government has no plans to change these.

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