More than 700 medical professionals have called on MPs to lower the upper time limits for abortions by two weeks.
They want politicians to back an amendment to the Government’s Criminal Justice Bill, in what would be the biggest change to abortion law for a generation, when the legislation arrives in the House of Commons for its Report Stage later this month.
In a letter to all 650 MPs, the medical professionals have urged MPs to vote in support of the amendment by Caroline Ansell, the Conservative MP for Eastbourne, to cut the upper time limit from 24 to 22 weeks.
