Almost 30 MPs back amendment to require in-person doctors appointment before acquiring abortion medication
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Almost 30 MPs back amendment to require in-person doctors appointment before acquiring abortion medication
Almost 30 MPs back amendment to require in-person doctors appointment before acquiring abortion medication
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Critics say amendment could pave way for dangerous, as well as sex-selective, abortions

The vote could result in a major change to how abortion law is policed in the UK

If approved by MPs women would no longer face prosecution if they aborted their own baby based on its sex, after the legal limit…

MPs voted for the biggest change to abortion law for half a century, meaning women will no longer be prosecuted for aborting…

Critics hit out at ‘dire’ situation in the country which has the strictest laws around abortion in western Europe

Telegraph readers say they are appalled by Parliament’s landmark vote