They originally said that abortion was a 'contentious' issue.
The episode, broadcast at the beginning of this month, followed a woman named Jeannie who discovered that she was experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.
The mother-of-two was told that she couldn’t have an abortion by both her husband and her doctor, so she opted to attend to a backstreet clinic.Afterwards, a message appeared on screen directing viewers to the BBC Action Line for more information on the issues raised in the programme. However, at the time, no information about abortion services were available on the website.
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