An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
  15 February 2010

UK: Tory Party under fire for teen pregnancy statistics error

Pregnancy advice groups and child welfare organisations have criticised the Conservatives over their mistaken assertion that more than half of all girls in deprived areas fall pregnant before the age of 18. 

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15 February 2010

Too many people? No, too many Malthusians

Since 200 AD, scaremongers have been describing human beings as ‘burdensome to the world’. They were wrong then, and they’re still wrong today. Commentary by Brendan O’Neill. 

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  15 February 2010

UK: New research on intimate violence makes headlines

A government advertising campaign is being launched to raise awareness of domestic violence in teenage relationships.

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  14 February 2010

Climate change - Calling planet birth

On 13 February, the UK Guardian published a lengthy article by Oliver Burkeman arguing that ‘family size has become the great unmentionable of the campaign for more environmentally friendly lifestyles’. 

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  14 February 2010

UK: Tory MPs’ abortion opinions

A significant number of Conservative candidates in winnable seats hold strong anti-abortion views, the Financial Times reports.

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  12 February 2010

USA: Sepsis after attempted self-induced abortion

A case report in the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine raises some useful questions about the practice of self-induced abortion in parts of the developed world, where abortion is legal and generally available. 

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29 January 2010

Abortion doctors: credit where it’s due

After forty years of legal abortion in Britain, the doctors’ contribution is at last being recognised as a part of mainstream healthcare. Commentary by Jennie Bristow, Editor, Abortion Review.

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