Member

Ironically, a lot of the discussion is focused on a general squeamishness, which one can understand, about late abortions. Despite the discussion being about late abortions and babies and so on, the policy target of many of these amendments, if you listen to the discussion on them, is to attack pills by post. The irony is that pills by post are a fantastic step forward for early terminations—we have just published at the Academy of Ideas a brilliant essay by Dr Ellie Lee on this—yet we are demonising them. We are demonising telemedicine in general, when this allows for women to get access to the drugs that they need to have an early termination, safely and at home.