A controversial SNP MSP has been slammed by colleagues and opponents for welcoming the historic US Supreme Court decision that ended the constitutional right to abortion.
The pro-life politician John Mason suggested that the end of US-wide rights to abortion opened the possibility of Scotland diverging from the rest of the UK when it came to the 24-week limit on terminations.
His intervention comes just hours ahead of Nicola Sturgeon’s Scottish summit on access to abortion clinics.