Abortion

Health written question – answered at on 18 March 2014.

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Photo of Jim Dobbin Jim Dobbin Labour, Heywood and Middleton

To ask the Secretary of State for Health

(1) how many ground E abortions for chromosomal abnormalities other than trisomies 21, 18 and 13 were diagnosed by (a) amniocentesis, (b) ultrasound, (c) chronic villus sampling and (d) other diagnostic tests in each of the last 10 years; what other methods of diagnosis were listed under heading (d), other; and how many such diagnoses which did not result in abortion were recorded in the same period;

(2) how many ground E abortions for trisomy 13 (Patau syndrome) were diagnosed by (a) amniocentesis, (b) ultrasound, (c) chronic villus sampling and (d) other diagnostic tests in each of the last 10 years; what other methods of diagnosis were listed under heading (d); and how many such diagnoses which did not result in abortion were recorded in the same period.

Photo of Jane Ellison Jane Ellison The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health

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