§ Dr. Mawhinneyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will seek to amend the law to make it explicitly an offence for a medical practitioner to promise before she becomes pregnant to carry out an abortion on a woman, or to procure such an abortion.
§ Mr. Geoffrey FinsbergWhatever may have been said to a women in advance of her becoming pregnant, a pregnancy may be terminated under the Abortion Act only if two medical practitioners are of the opinion formed in good faith that the criteria of the Act are met, and therefore no change in the law is necessary.