An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: August 2008
 
  18 August 2008

APA study will ‘hinder’ campaign to tighten UK law

This authoritative study will undermine certain amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, reports Mark Henderson, Science Editor of the Times (London).

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  5 August 2008

India: Law faces test case

A court in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) has rejected a couple’s plea to abort their 25-week fetus. 

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  5 August 2008

Review Northern Ireland law, says UN Committee

The UN Committee on the Elimination for Discrimination Against Women has repeated its call for a review of NI’s abortion law through public consultation. 

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  1 August 2008

India: Discrepancies in the laws on indentifying fetal sex and TOP

The authors note that Indian law permits abortion for fetal abnormality, but prohibits sex-detection to identify fetuses at high risk of sex-linked diseases.

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  1 August 2008

Cambodia: Abortion-related complications

This study set out to describe the complications of miscarriage and failed terminations and document the magnitude of the resulting morbidity in the Cambodian public sector. 

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  1 August 2008

India: Social and logistical barriers to the use of reversible contraception

Women in a small coastal village in western India were asked to explain their preference for female sterilization over modern contraceptive methods.

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