Critics blast Scottish ‘home abortion’ plan

Wed, 30 Jun 2010

Doctors in Scotland are giving women abortion-inducing drugs in hospital before sending them home to have the abortion in a scheme critics have described as “grotesque”.

Before now, women having so-called early medical abortions have been given the drugs and kept in hospital until they are well enough to return home, usually about six hours later.

But under this scheme women are being offered the option of receiving the abortion-inducing drugs and then going straight home. the rest