The 1990 Amendment

The Abortion Act 1967 was amended in 1990 by Section 37 of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. The main change is that there is now an upper time limit of 24 weeks for legal abortion. There is no upper time limit in a very few extreme cases, which are: risk to the life of the mother, risk of grave permanent injury to the mother and risk of serious fetal handicap.