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Medway District Health Authority And Abortion Services

EDM number 269 in 1991-92, proposed by Joan Ruddock on 26/11/1991.

That this House condemns the decision of Medway District Health Authority, as set out in Dr Richard Swan's letter to general practitioners and reported in The Guardian on 15th November to restrict NHS abortion services to women who already have four or more children; notes that this would exclude the vast majority of pregnant women from access to safe, legal NHS abortions; expresses its grave concern that young and poor women who cannot afford ú200 for a private abortion may turn to illegal practitioners, thus risking injury, ill-health and death; questions whether the action of Medway District Health Authority is legal under the terms of the Abortion Act 1967; concludes that these so-called reforms of the NHS are working to the detriment of women's health; and calls on the Secretary of State for Health to clarify the situation, in the context of the terms of the Abortion Act 1967 and the creeping privatisation of NHS services.

This motion has been signed by a total of 65 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Joan Ruddock26/11/1991Lewisham, DeptfordProposed
Dawn Primarolo26/11/1991Bristol SouthSigned
Audrey Wise26/11/1991PrestonSigned
Joan Walley26/11/1991Stoke-on-Trent NorthSigned
Hilary Armstrong26/11/1991North West DurhamSigned
Maria Fyfe26/11/1991Glasgow, MaryhillSigned
Frank Doran26/11/1991Aberdeen SouthSigned
Harry Cohen26/11/1991LeytonSigned
Mo Mowlam26/11/1991RedcarSigned
Lewis Moonie26/11/1991KirkcaldySigned
Ian McCartney26/11/1991MakerfieldSigned
Joan Lestor26/11/1991EcclesSigned
Doug Henderson26/11/1991Newcastle upon Tyne NorthSigned
Bill Michie27/11/1991Sheffield, HeeleySigned
Dafydd Wigley27/11/1991CaernarfonSigned
Harry Barnes27/11/1991North East DerbyshireSigned
Tommy Graham27/11/1991Renfrew West and InverclydeSigned
Frank Cook27/11/1991Stockton NorthSigned
Keith Bradley27/11/1991Manchester, WithingtonSigned
William McKelvey27/11/1991Kilmarnock & LoudounSigned
John McAllion27/11/1991Dundee EastSigned
Terry Lewis27/11/1991WorsleySigned
Eric Illsley27/11/1991Barnsley CentralSigned
Ernie Ross27/11/1991Dundee WestSigned
Eddie Loyden28/11/1991Liverpool, GarstonSigned
Alice Mahon28/11/1991HalifaxSigned
Tony Banks28/11/1991Newham North WestSigned
Ken Livingstone29/11/1991Brent EastSigned
Dennis Skinner02/12/1991BolsoverSigned
Andrew Faulds02/12/1991Warley EastSigned
Ron Davies02/12/1991CaerphillySigned
Alan Wynne Williams03/12/1991CarmarthenSigned
Joyce Quin03/12/1991Gateshead EastSigned
Graham Allen03/12/1991Nottingham NorthSigned
John Garrett03/12/1991Norwich SouthSigned
Alistair Darling03/12/1991Edinburgh CentralSigned
Bob Cryer03/12/1991Bradford SouthSigned
Richard Caborn03/12/1991Sheffield CentralSigned
Martyn Jones03/12/1991Clwyd South WestSigned
Andrew Smith03/12/1991Oxford EastSigned
Brian Sedgemore03/12/1991Hackney South & ShoreditchSigned
Terry Patchett03/12/1991Barnsley EastSigned
David Clelland03/12/1991Tyne BridgeSigned
Clare Short04/12/1991Birmingham, LadywoodSigned
Chris Smith04/12/1991Islington South & FinsburySigned
Doug Hoyle04/12/1991Warrington NorthSigned
Gwyneth Dunwoody04/12/1991Crewe & NantwichSigned
Gerry Bermingham04/12/1991St Helens SouthSigned
Dennis Turner04/12/1991Wolverhampton South EastSigned
Ronald Brown05/12/1991Edinburgh LeithSigned
Paul Boateng05/12/1991Brent SouthSigned
Derek Fatchett10/12/1991Leeds CentralSigned
Robert Wareing10/12/1991Liverpool, West DerbySigned
Joe Ashton10/12/1991BassetlawSigned
Austin Mitchell11/12/1991Great GrimsbySigned
Elliot Morley11/12/1991Glanford and ScunthorpeSigned
Llin Golding11/12/1991Newcastle-under-LymeSigned
Gerry Steinberg11/12/1991Durham, City ofSigned
Sylvia Heal12/12/1991Staffordshire MidSigned
Jack Thompson18/12/1991WansbeckSigned
Ron Leighton19/12/1991Newham North EastSigned
Chris Mullin13/01/1992Sunderland SouthSigned
Tony Benn13/01/1992ChesterfieldSigned
Kevin Barron16/01/1992Rother ValleySigned
Harriet Harman21/01/1992PeckhamSigned

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