 |  | | | Abortion | 7 July 2004 | | |
Should the law be changed?
The 1967 Abortion Act has been described as a landmark in social policy making, allowing legal access to abortion for British women for the first time.
The Act initially set a cut off point of 28 weeks after conception for abortions to take place - a limit which was amended in 1990 to 24 weeks. Now the man who was responsible for steering the abortion bill through Parliament 37 years ago wants a review of that law.
Former Liberal leader Lord David Steel talks about how he would like abortion law to be reassessed in the light of medical advances and European norms.
Christine Odone, Deputy Editor of New Statesman and Dr Janet Radcliffe-Richards, Director of Bioethics at University College, London discuss how the laws on abortion are formulated and what the principles are behind them.
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