Thank you for contacting me about abortion.
It is illegal for a practitioner to carry out an abortion on the grounds of sex alone. Anyone with evidence that sex selective abortion is occurring should report it to the police.
Any changes to time limits on abortion are traditionally treated as matters of conscience, on which governments adopt a neutral stance.
While pregnancy and maternity discrimination is illegal, we know that some new mothers can still experience unacceptable attitudes on their return to work. That is why we set out greater protections for pregnant women and new parents through the Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination Act. This Act enables redundancy protection to be extended so it applies to pregnant women as well as new parents returning to work from a relevant form of leave. This will help shield new parents and expectant mothers from workplace discrimination, offering them greater job security at an important time in