An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: August 2006
 
 
28 August 2006

US decision on ECP ‘a victory for science over ideology’

After three years of controversy, the USA has approved over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive pill.

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  28 August 2006

Woman refused ECP because of pharmacist’s religion

A Muslim pharmacist told a Birmingham woman that it was against her religion to sell the emergency contraceptive pill. 

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  25 August 2006

France: Determinants of emergency contraceptive use

Two years after emergency contraception was made available without prescription in France, researchers investigated the determinants of its use in a representative sample of women at risk for unintended pregnancy.

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  25 August 2006

Row over abortion case in Colombia

The first legal abortion has been performed since the deeply-Catholic nation legalised the procedure in May. 

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  18 August 2006

UK: Contraceptive methods and repeat abortions following termination of pregnancy

This randomised trial targeted women undergoing abortion in Edinburgh for improved contraceptive advice and provision. 

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  18 August 2006

USA: Use of online information about early abortion

This study analyses the use patterns of multiligual website dedicated to three methods of early pregnancy termination: mifepristone/misoprostol, methotrexate/misoprostol and misoprostol alone. 

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  18 August 2006

Argentina: Prenatal diagnosis without legal abortion

This study set out to analyse couples’ decision making about prenatal cytogenetic diagnosis in patients with no access to legal abortion for fetal anomaly. 

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