Counsellors are not obliged to follow Crisis Pregnancy Agency’s advice

IT is hard to believe the bullyboy tactics of the Crisis Pregnancy Agency (CPA) in its efforts to compel certain counselling groups to distribute information on abortion clinics in Britain.

Those involved in this controversy would do well to read the Regulation of Information (Services Outside the State for Termination of Pregnancies) Act 1995 which permitted organisations and persons to distribute certain information on abortion.

Information was defined in the act as being the names and addresses of abortion clinics and could be provided by doctors, agencies and counsellors.