The Supreme Court unanimously allowed the appeal to set aside the Inner House’s declarator that the scope of the Abortion Act 1967, s 4(1), included ‘the entitlement to refuse to delegate, supervise and/or support staff in the provision of care to patients’ undergoing terminations and extended to ‘any involvement in the process of treatment, the object of which is to terminate a pregnancy’.
Karon Monaghan QC intervened on behalf of the Royal College of Midwives and British Pregnancy Advisory Service.