Dr Evan Harris MP

Science Select Committee to investigate abortion

12.00.00am BST (GMT +0100) Wed 20th Jun 2007

Responding to the news today that the Commons Science & Technology Select Committee is launching an inquiry into medical, scientific and social advances which may impact on decisions about abortion law reform, Dr Evan Harris, Liberal Democrat member of the committee, said:

"I welcome our decision to look into this since Parliament will soon be having to make decisions about this contentious matter when the Human Tissue and Embryology Bill comes before Parliament in the next session.

"In any Parliamentary debate it will be important that claims about what science can do or what the medical evidence is have been scrutinised and evaluated formally. Given that the Government has failed to conduct any sort of review, it is good that a cross-party group on both sides of the ethical argument is now doing so."

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