Britain should offer abortions to American women for FREE in wake of Roe v Wade ruling, doctors say

Daily Mail UK ^ | June 30, 2022 | Connor Boyd Deputy Health Editor For Mailonline

[Morgana]

Britain should offer free abortions to American women who can no longer get them legally, UK doctors have said.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has agreed to lobby the Government on the issue following the US supreme court's decision to overturn the Roe v Wade ruling.

That highly controversial move ends American women's legal right to have abortions and leaves it up to individual states to decide if they are lawful.

Foreign patients are able to have abortions in the UK currently but can be charged up to £1,500, depending on how far along a woman is in her pregnancy.

But in an emergency debate yesterday, the BMA voted to lobby for free abortions for all nationalities.

Of the 80,000 women who receive abortions from the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) each year, 4,000 are international patients.

Seven US states have already banned abortions in the wake of the landmark decision last week.

While abortions are usually free for Britons on the NHS, international patients can expect to pay between £480 to £1,510 for a consultation and the procedure itself.

The cost depends on how many weeks pregnant the woman is and whether the procedure is done medically — using tablets — or surgically.

At the BMA's annual meeting in Brighton, 57 per cent of members voted in favour of lobbying the Government for free abortions to all nationalities.

A third voted against it and 7 per cent abstained.

Marina Politis, the medical student who tabled the motion, said: 'Abortion is essential healthcare … in [some] cases, the US supreme court decision is a death sentence.

'In other, less risky pregnancies, this decision still removes an essential right of the individual to choose what happens to their own body.

[Sam77]

OMG these people are either dumb, naive or misinformed. I doubt they even know the tragedy of abortions in the USA, organ trafficking among others evil goings on