Free votes on abortion are ‘a myth’

Nadine Dorries has hit out at the way successive governments have handled the abortion issue, suggesting parliament never really has a free vote on the issue.

Interview: Nadine Dorries

Controversial Tory MP Nadine Dorries talks frankly about abortion, Cameron’s leadership and her Christian faith.

Hunt left helpless after punishing interrogation on abortion evidence

Jeremy Hunt was repeatedly unable to provide evidence for his view that the abortion time limit should be dropped to 12 weeks today, during a punishing media interview.

Hunt’s ‘shocking’ abortion comments generate controversy

David Cameron’s bid to detoxify the Conservatives on the NHS this weekend has been undermined by health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s abortion comments.

Comment: Maria Miller is right – it’s time to lower the abortion limit

coalition minister for culture, media and sport Maria Miller, whos remit also covers women and equality is right to re-open the debate on whether the abortion limit should be at 24 or 20 weeks. Pro-life campaigners now need to convince Britain that the pro-choice brigade have no answers to this moral problem.

Abortion service attacked by hackers

One of Britain’s leading abortion services has suffered thousands of hacking attacks, it has emerged.

Comment: Anti-abortion extremists are in the heart of government

Extremist backbenchers like Nadine Dorries and sympathetic ministers like Andrew Lansley are conspiring to threaten abortion rights.

Abortion inspectors bite back at Lansley

Spot checks on abortion clinics ordered by health secretary Andrew Lansley are at the centre of a growing political row.

Doctors pre-emptively approving abortions, says govt

Doctors in abortion clinics have been signing consent forms before the woman had been seen, the government claimed today.

Comment: Beware the religious right red-herring

Do we need to worry about the rise of a divisive right-wing network?