Mentions:
1: Mackay, Gillian (Green - Central Scotland) The first is simply that abortion can be deeply polarising. - Speech Link
2: Greer, Ross (Green - West Scotland) Quite obviously, you cannot access abortion services somewhere other than at an abortion service provider - Speech Link
3: Mason, John (SNP - Glasgow Shettleston) The bill and the debate are very much about abortion. - Speech Link
4: Wells, Annie (Con - Glasgow) clinics and anti-abortion demonstrators. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None When I went to an abortion clinic, I asked for help and whether there was an alternative to abortion, - Speech Link
2: None often hear pro-abortion campaigners saying that there is no evidence that an abortion can affect the - Speech Link
3: None providers and abortion campaigners are neutral in that sense. - Speech Link
4: None In our view, abortion is healthcare, and a person’s choice to have or not to have an abortion must be - Speech Link
5: None or someone providing abortion services. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None relating to abortion; and continued or repeated observation of premises. - Speech Link
2: None Everyone’s experience of abortion is different. - Speech Link
3: None That includes accessing contraception, abortion and post-abortion services. - Speech Link
4: None and early medical abortion at home. - Speech Link
5: None It is all about wanting to ban abortion outright. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Haughey, Clare (SNP - Rutherglen) outside abortion services, and we also heard from women who have accessed abortion services and have - Speech Link
2: Minto, Jenni (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Abortion is highly regulated in healthcare, which is incredibly important. - Speech Link
3: Minto, Jenni (SNP - Argyll and Bute) Are you asking about the individual seeking abortion? - Speech Link
4: Mackay, Gillian (Green - Central Scotland) However, the bill is not, and never has been, about abortion. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None Abortion care is already a stigmatized area, as well. - Speech Link
2: None Post-abortion counselling is available through the national health service. - Speech Link
3: None Media reports will talk about anti-abortion protesters being outside the clinic. - Speech Link
4: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) How would that work if future ministers were against abortion? - Speech Link
5: None A protest affects the whole building and not just the abortion service. - Speech Link
The Bill failed to complete its passage through Parliament before the end of the session. This means the Bill will make no further progress. A Bill to amend the law relating to abortion in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland; to remove criminal liability in respect of abortion performed with the consent of the pregnant woman up to the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy; to repeal sections 59 and 60 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861; to create offences of termination of a pregnancy after its twenty-fourth week and non-consensual termination of a pregnancy; to amend the law relating to conscientious objection to participation in abortion treatment; and for connected purposes.
Mentions:
1: Baroness Deech (XB - Life peer) Majesty’s Government what progress they have made towards the implementation of safe access zones around abortion - Speech Link
2: Lord Sharpe of Epsom (Con - Life peer) that law enforcement agencies have a clear and consistent understanding around enforcement, and that abortion - Speech Link
3: Baroness Barker (LD - Life peer) Can the Minister confirm whether the Home Office plans to be in touch with local councils, abortion care - Speech Link
4: Baroness Fox of Buckley (Non-affiliated - Life peer) First, people have been arrested for praying outside abortion clinics. - Speech Link
5: Lord Watts (Lab - Life peer) They do not have to do it outside an abortion clinic. - Speech Link
Found: Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) (Scotland) Bill
Jan. 25 2011
Source Page: UK’s policy position on safe and unsafe abortion in developing countries. Practice Paper. 15 p.Found: UK’s policy position on safe and unsafe abortion in developing countries. Practice Paper. 15 p.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when she plans to publish the abortion rates data for (a) 2021/22 and (b) 2022/23.
Answered by Maria Caulfield - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
Abortion statistics for England and Wales for 2021, and from January to June for 2022, have been published on the GOV.UK website, and are available respectively at the following links:
Full 12-month abortion statistics for 2022 are provisionally scheduled to be published in May 2024. The date of the publication of abortion statistics for 2023 will be announced in due course.