Very premature baby survival not improving
Drinking laws review to target alcohol sales"One of the reasons we produced this paper is we felt there had been some misinformation about the situation," he said.
"If you report data from a single unit, or two or three particular hospitals, you can get rather spurious results."
Last October, the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee said there was no scientific basis for lowering the limit for legal abortions.
Legislators are traditionally given a free vote on abortion matters in the House of Commons, and reduced the limit to 24 weeks from 28 weeks in 1990.
Opposition Conservative Leader David Cameron has said he would support a further reduction, while Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman has said the premier would not vote for a change.
The government has said it has no plans to alter the existing limit.
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