An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: June 2007
 
  15 June 2007

Advisory group warns of teenage ‘sexual health crisis’

A report by the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV claims teenagers are ‘defining their lifestyle’ through alcohol, drugs and risky sexual behaviour.

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  15 June 2007

MPs gear up for Parliament debate on abortion

Pro and anti-abortion MPs are preparing for the first full Parliament debate for 17 years on the 24 week limit, the BBC reported this week.

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  15 June 2007

Vatican turns on Amnesty International

The Vatican has urged all Catholics to stop donating money to Amnesty International, accusing the human rights group of promoting abortion. 

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  14 June 2007

India: Doctor arrested for ‘female feticide’

Police in India have arrested the owner of a clinic near Delhi on suspicion of illegally aborting female fetuses. 

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  14 June 2007

South Africa: A comparison of pregnancy duration assessments

The study set out to compare providers’ and women’s estimates of duration of pregnancy with ultrasound estimates for determining medical abortion eligibility.

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  14 June 2007

Netherlands: Pregnancy termination for fetal abnormality or intrauterine fetal death

The study set out to evaluate the method of mifepristone and misoprostol for pregnancy termination during the second trimester or for intrauterine fetal death during the second or third trimester. 

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  12 June 2007

USA: Court rules that forced abortion is grounds for asylum

California judges decided that Chinese bookkeeper Li Zhen and her partner could stay to apply for asylum, as the company they worked for in China forced her to have an abortion. 

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