Submitted on Tuesday 24th March 2020
Rejected on Friday 24th April 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: already-happening (see below for details)
Allow women to access medical abortions from home, to carry out at home.
The Government must allow women to access medical abortions through a telephone triage, instead of visiting a medical clinic to complete the first stage of a medical abortion. Women should simply be allowed to gain access to the necessary medication to carry out the procedure entirely at home.
Considering the situation with the outbreak of COVID-19, there are increasingly reduced services, due to lack of staff and Government enforced lockdowns, which includes closures of sexual health clinics and GPs. Soon, women will find it significantly harder to access abortions, which is already a stressful enough experience. We want abortions to be accessible from home, to allow women to have certainty they will be able to carry out an abortion through this challenging and uncertain time.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Since this petition was started, the Government has announced that women and girls will be able to take both pills for early medical abortion up to 10 weeks in their own homes, without the need to first attend a hospital or clinic.
You can find out more here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/temporary-approval-of-home-use-for-both-stages-of-early-medical-abortion--2
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### What the Petitions Committee is doing
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