Some senior safeguarding doctors say under-18s should be seen face to face and examined.
Women and girls in England should be able to access early medical abortions by phone or video call, clinics say.
The at-home abortion arrangements are due to end in August - but Conservative peer Baroness Sugg has tabled an amendment to the Health and Care Bill, seeking to make them permanent.Medical abortions involve taking two pills. This remote care has been revolutionary for women's health, the British Pregnancy Advisory Service , one of three main clinics operating in England, said.Chief executive Clare Murphy said: "We've long known there are women who really struggle to access clinic services.Women in coercive relationships, for example, found it difficult to access clinics without their partner knowing.
NNDHP early medical abortions lead Dr Helen Daley, a consultant paediatrician, said: "We've had young people say they are depressed, anxious, afraid to go out, months after the event.But BPAS said there had been fewer than one in 2,000 cases where the gestation was more advanced than expected, without a case of this type in girls since 2020, and it saw all under-16s and most under-18s face to face.
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