An update on issues relating to abortion,
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Monthly archive: October 2008
 
  19 October 2008

Northern Ireland: Abortion Act provokes rallies

Pro-choice and anti-abortion campaigners have been holding rallies in support of, and in opposition to, an attempt to change the law on abortion, ahead of the Parliamentary debate on Wednesday.

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  17 October 2008

Academics call to modernise abortion law

Britain’s 40-year-old abortion law flouts the legal principles that underpin modern medical practice, 85 academic lawyers and ethicists say today in a letter to The Times (London). 

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  17 October 2008

Spain: Women on Waves sparks protests

A flotilla of anti-abortion campaigners last night threatened to prevent a Dutch “abortion ship” from docking in the Spanish port of Valencia.

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  17 October 2008

Harman ‘rift’ with PM over HFE Bill

Commons leader Harriet Harman has denied reports of a rift between her and the Prime Minister over a bid by MPs to change the abortion laws, The Herald reports.

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  15 October 2008

USA: Catholics for Obama?

An interesting piece in Newsweek examines the strange emergence of Roman Catholic pro-lifers in the Barack Obama camp. 

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  14 October 2008

Debating abortion in a therapy culture

Dr Ellie Lee, author of Abortion, Motherhood and Mental Health, discusses why the anti-abortion lobby persistently claims that abortion damages women’s mental health, despite the fact that science persistently fails to find such a link.

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  14 October 2008

HFEA chief hits out at abortion law debate

Plans to overhaul Britain’s fertility laws have been held up by political squabbling over abortion rights, the head of the country’s fertility watchdog has said.

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