Professor Sabaratnam Arulkumaran:

Training in termination of pregnancy has not been uniformly given for most trainees. The Royal College of Surgeons of England is trying to reintroduce that. Let us consider the 2016 report. Almost 60% to 70% of the terminations are done medically. Only a small percentage will need surgical termination. I work at St. George's, University of London Hospital. We offer termination by suction termination. Late terminations are very rare. As I mentioned, after 20 weeks a lethal malformation is 1% to 2%. In such cases we do not really have to look at the foetus and dismember, or something like that, because we use medication, like Misoprostol and other drugs, that can procure the termination without difficulty. The past practice of traumatic termination is going away. Mostly, medical terminations are coming into practice.