Sally-Ann Hart is the MP for Hastings and Rye and was a councillor in Rother.
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) recently launched its public consultation on whether to make home use of both abortion pills a permanent measure in the UK.
‘At-home’ abortions – which the media and critics have termed ‘DIY’, or ‘do-it-yourself’ abortions – were introduced on 30th March 2020 in the most radical change to abortion law since 1967. After a phone call with an abortion provider, women can now be sent Mifepristone and Misoprostol pills to take at home without direct medical supervision in order to end their pregnancies.
