A Scottish Government-commissioned review has triggered a fierce political backlash after recommending that sex-selective abortion should not be explicitly prohibited in future legislation.
The review, ordered by former First Minister Humza Yousaf and led by Prof Anna Glasier, argues that updated legislation should make “no specific reference… to sex-selective abortion”, a shift that would remove any legal barrier to abortions carried out because the unborn child is a girl. Sex-selective abortion is currently treated as illegal across Britain because it does not fall within the lawful grounds set out in the Abortion Act.
