The new Health Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister Therese Coffey says she’s “not planning to make any government changes” on abortion laws in the UK, after questions were raised about her past voting record.

Ms Coffey is a practicing Catholic who recently voted against making take-at-home abortion pills, which were introduced during the pandemic, more widely available.

“The law on abortion is settled,” she told ITV News.

“I’m a democrat, my focus is going to be on the ABCD (ambulances, backlogs, care, doctors and dentists), but it’s important we keep focus on what affects the majority of the patients, as well as of course individuals.

“I’m not planning to make any government changes.”

During an interview in June, just after the US Supreme Court made the landmark decision to overturn the Roe vs Wade ruling which gave abortion in the United States constitutional protection, the then Work and Pensions Minister said she’d “prefer that people didn’t have abortions.”