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Evening Standard
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Politics
Abbie Llewelyn

Abortion complications reporting call ‘a smokescreen’ to limit access, peer says

The Palace of Westminster, which contains the House of Commons and the House of Lords, in central London (Stefan Rousseau/PA) - (PA Archive)

A proposed law on the reporting of complications from abortions in England has been branded a “back door to try and limit” access to terminations using “statistical jiggery pokery”.

The private member’s Bill, put forward by Conservative peer Lord Moylan, would require the Government to publish an annual report containing certain data relating to abortion complications.

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