Joe Benton – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Joe Benton on 2014-07-15.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, with reference to his Department’s publication, Abortion Statistics, England and Wales: 2013, published in June 2014, which method of stopping the fetal heart besides feticide is referred to in paragraph 2.25.

Jane Ellison

No other such method is referred to or required as the publication refers to cases where the procedure is undertaken under general anaesthesia i.e. patient and fetus are anaesthetised.