President George W Bush has restated his personal opposition to abortion, by addressing activists at the annual March For Life rally in Washington, DC.
Life peer Baroness Masham has placed two amendments to the Abortion Act that aimed to ban abortion for fetal abnormality and ban ‘selective fetal reduction’ in multiple pregnancies.
The House of Lords Liaison Committee has refused a request from the anti-abortion peer Lord Alton of Liverpool that an ad hoc select committee be established on abortion and the working of the Abortion Act 1967.
An editorial by James Trussell and Lisa Wynn in the journal Contraception examines the reasons for the high incidence of unintended pregnancy in the USA.
A large study of adolescents in 24 European and North American countries finds that while a ‘substantial minority’ of 15-year-olds have had intercourse, only 13.2% reported no contraceptive use during their most recent sexual encounter.
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