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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.