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Sex selective abortion - SNP review of Scottish law

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ArabellaSaurus · 15/11/2025 16:40

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/11/14/abortions-based-on-sex-legalised-plans-snp/

'a report commissioned by the Scottish Government recommends ...establishing an automatic right to an abortion and listing a set of scenarios where it would not be allowed.
The expert review published on Friday said any future legislation should not include any explicit prohibition on sex-selective abortion.
Prof Annie Glasier, who chaired the review, said that the group believed it was “unnecessary” and “potentially harmful” to explicitly prohibit the practice.

She said there was a lack of evidence of it taking place in Scotland, adding that enforcing it would also be difficult because it would require “intrusive and inappropriate questioning” of those seeking an abortion.
She also raised concerns that it would risk “racial profiling” women from particular communities where sex-selective abortion is thought to take place.'

The Review:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/review-abortion-law-scotland-expert-group-report/pages/5/

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ArabellaSaurus · 15/11/2025 16:41

From the Telegraph article:

'Devi Shah, spokesman for the Stop Gendercide campaign, said: “It’s a heartbreaking reality that, here in the UK, many women face pressure from partners or family members to have a termination simply because they are expecting a girl.”
She added: “If sex-selective abortion is made legal, it will make it much more difficult for women to refuse pressure from relatives or partners to have an abortion based on the baby’s sex.
“There is clear evidence that women in the UK are coming under pressure to have sex-selective abortions, and that sex-selective abortions are already happening here in the UK.
“This situation would almost certainly worsen if sex-selective abortion were legalised in Scotland.”
The 165-page document – commissioned by <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/6FHGZ/www.telegraph.co.uk/humza-yousaf/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Humza Yousaf, the former first minister – is only the first stage of the Scottish Government’s review into the laws and will now be followed by more evidence gathering on the issue.'

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