Abortion shouldn’t become a postcode lottery | Letters

Professor Malcolm Nicolson and Sally Johnson continue the debate sparked by Zoe Williams’ articleThe proposal by Zoe Williams (G2, 26 October) that there should be no specific legal framework for the regulation of abortion suggests a comparison with the situation which pertained in Scotland before the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act. The 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, which outlawed abortion in England and Wales, did not apply to Scotland. Prosecutions of backstreet abortionis