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Abortion

Volume 973: debated on Friday 16 November 1979

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asked the Secretary of State for Social Services how many abortions were notified as being carried out in the National Health Service and in the non-National Health Service sector within the areas served by the Yorkshire regional health authority and the North-Western regional health authority in each of the years 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979; and how many of these were performed after a 20-week gestation period.

The numbers so notified of abortions to women normally resident in England and Wales were as follows: