§ Mr. David Steelasked the Secretary of State for Scotland what was the mortality rate attributed to legal abortion in each of the years 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellNil, because no deaths attributed to legal abortion were registered in Scotland in the years 1968 to 1972 inclusive. From information in death certificates and notifications under the Abortion Act 1967, however, it is known that legal abortion was associated with a few deaths, numbering one in 1969, three in 1971, and two in 1972, although it was not the underlying cause to which the deaths were assigned in the death certificates.