6. Statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services: The Public Health Wales Review of Sexual Health Services

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:07 pm on 17 April 2018.

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Photo of Vaughan Gething Vaughan Gething Labour 6:07, 17 April 2018

On the first point, I'm interested in the Cardiff issue that both you and Jenny Rathbone have raised, so I'll be happy to meet both of you at the same time to try and run through the localised challenges that you're both expressing.

On the second issue that you raised, I too noticed the exclusion zone around providing abortion advice in clinics. It is something that concerns me about the manner in which people will feel pressurised unfairly into making one choice or another, and I do not think that the protesters are simply there to try and have a polite conversation or to provide pastoral support or guidance. I think it is plainly something that I would personally, myself, view as being intimidatory. So, I'd be happy to think again about what powers are available and to whom, to think about how we make sure that people are able to access healthcare services in a manner that is not judgmental, and they're able to make choices that each of us would want to make about any aspect of our own health and care treatment.