An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
  1 July 2009

Northern Ireland: Anti-abortion group to challenge abortion guidance

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has won High Court permission to challenge government guidelines on abortion in Northern Ireland.

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  1 July 2009

Banking Crisis: What should be done about the sperm donor shortage?

Report on a debate organised by the Progress Educational Trust and the Royal Society of Medicine on 25 June. 

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Editor's choice
11 June 2009

Abortion and Clinical Practice

New: The third in a series of special editions of Abortion Review, presenting papers from the landmark BPAS conference ‘The Future of Abortion’.

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11 June 2009

Clinical Update: Vasectomy

By Sam Nag, FRCS. Consultant Surgeon, BPAS.

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2 June 2009

Comment: One family’s tragedy, not a political indicator

While mourning and commemorating the life and work of Dr George Tiller, we need to be clear about whether his murder has any wider meaning for the politics of abortion. By Jennie Bristow. 

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  19 June 2009

UK: Boots the chemist to sell Viagra over the counter

BPAS responds: Good news, but what about the contraceptive Pill?

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19 June 2009

Autonomy and the UK’s law on abortion

Summary of a chapter by Laura Riley and Ann Furedi in the new book Regulating Autonomy: Sex, Reproduction and Family, published by Hart.

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  18 June 2009

USA: ‘Fetal anomaly’ pregnancy blog is revealed as a hoax

Anti-abortion groups are calling for the return of money donated to a blogger claiming to be continuing with a pregnancy despite knowing that her baby would not survive.

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  18 June 2009

Scottish government urges Scots to talk to their partners about sex

A new website urges 20-40 year-olds to ‘ditch their inhibitions’, as part of a Scottish government campaign aimed at avoiding unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.

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12 June 2009

Britain: New public health minister announced

Gillian Merron, MP for Lincoln, will now take responsibility for public health, including sexual healthcare.

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