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Provisions for at home early medical abortions to be made permanent from 30 August 2022.

• Updated: 23 August 2022

The approval allowing women to take both pills for early medical abortion at home will return to pre-pandemic arrangements at midnight on 29 August.

• Updated: 24 February 2022

The Chief Medical Officer has written to doctors clarifying the time limit for termination of pregnancy under the Abortion Act 1967.

• Updated: 28 March 2019

• Clarification of time limit for termination of pregnancy performed under Grounds C and D of the Abortion Act 1967

  Originally published 23 July 2018 and a clarification published on 28…

Letter from the Department of Health and Social Care to all doctors performing termination of pregnancy.

• Updated: 28 March 2019

The following National Statistics were released today by the Department of Health:

• Updated: 29 May 2012

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government