An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: May 2009
 
  20 May 2009

‘Shock’ video aims to reduce teenage pregnancy

An NHS trust has defended its decision to release a web video of a schoolgirl giving birth.

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  20 May 2009

China: Prolonged uterine bleeding after a medical abortion

From Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

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  20 May 2009

Denmark: Induced abortions in cancer survivors

From the Journal of the National Cancer Institute..

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  19 May 2009

UK: Facts about ‘child father’ revealed

Alfie Patten, the boy who was reported to have conceived a child when he was 12 years old, is not the baby’s father, DNA tests have shown.

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18 May 2009

US president addresses abortion debate

In a speech at America’s most famous Catholic university, Barack Obama said that he did not believe that ‘the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away’.

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  15 May 2009

Germany: Parliament votes for restrictions on late term abortions

German women seeking abortions after 20 weeks’ gestation will be required to undergo a consideration period of at least three days before a physician can make a final decision, the parliament has decided.

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  15 May 2009

Spain: Legal reform on the cards

Spain’s cabinet on 14 May approved a bill to change the abortion law, a measure that has angered the Roman Catholic Church.

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