PRO-LIFE campaigners are set to launch a legal challenge against a Scottish Government decision to allow women to take abortion pills at home.
The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) Scotland haa taken legal advice about challenging the move, which was unveiled in October.
Scotland's Chief Medical Officer, Dr Catherine Calderwood, wrote to health boards saying the drug misoprostol could be taken by women outwith a clinical setting.
The change brings Scotland in line with other countries such as Sweden and France.
SPUC believes their advice has given them “good prospects of success” if they launch a challenge.
John Deighan, chief executive of SPUC Scotland, said: "Our advice is clear and we really have no alternative but to challenge these proposals which go to the core of our beliefs in the right to life for unborn children and the health and wellbeing of their mothers."
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