The numbers have increased by 55 percent in the past year
The number of women being forced to travel to England from Scotland to receive later abortion care has increased by 55 per cent in the past year, new figures show.
She said: “I think when you’re going through something like that you just want to stay in your own bed. I was so nervous that I wouldn’t meet the cut-off date because, by the time we got down there, I was 23 weeks. Then by the time I actually got to have the procedure, I was 23 weeks and five days – which is far too close, when it could have been dealt with a little bit sooner if it was in Glasgow.
When asked if he thought abortion care was good enough in Scotland, First Minister Humza Yousaf said: “It’s good but it needs improvement”. He added: “If we look at the issue of, for example, later-term abortions, there’s more that we can do to because we know that we don’t want women to feel that their only option is that they have to travel to other parts of the UK.”
“Ultimately, none of this is solved until women can get the abortions they are legally entitled to, as locally as possible and also with the choice of methods. Some of the women we talk to are exceptionally vulnerable or exceptionally young. Number of women who travelled from Scotland to England for abortion care between January 2019 and May 2023 Greater Glasgow & Clyde - 67Forth Valley - 19“24 weeks has been the legal limit since 1990 and the abortion act has been in place since 1967 and Scotland has never ever provided the full extent of this act.
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