COMMENT | Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Lim Hui Ying responded to Kepala Batas MP Siti Mastura Muhammad in Parliament today regarding abortion and abandonment of babies.

Lim said that abortion was illegal in this country and declared that clinics conducting it were also illegal.

She is mistaken on both accounts, and the response adds to the misinformation and stigma surrounding unintended pregnancies.

Too many people in Malaysia still wrongly believe that abortion is illegal. The law allows...