An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: October 2009
 
  23 October 2009

USA: Statement on family planning following abortion

USAID and key health oganisations have signed a consensus statement on family planning as a key component of post abortion care. 

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  22 October 2009

Peru: Abortion bill prompts protests in capital

Hundreds of people have demonstrated in Lima as a legislative panel approved a bill proposing legalising abortion in some cases.

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21 October 2009

‘Abortion Worldwide: A decade of uneven progress’

Restricting the availability of legal abortion does not appear to reduce the number of women trying to end unwanted pregnancies, a major report by the Guttmacher Institute suggests.

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  20 October 2009

USA: Obesity and oral contraceptive pill failure

The goal of this study was to summarise and evaluate the existing literature addressing the question of whether women with increased weight or body mass index (BMI) have an increased risk of oral contraceptive pill (OCP) failure compared with normal weight women. From Contraception.

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  20 October 2009

UK: Government ordered to publish late abortion stats

The Department of Health has been told to publish full data about the number of abortions carried out because of fetal abnormality.

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  20 October 2009

Doctor found guilty of drink spiking to cause abortion

A jury has found Edward Erin guilty of attempting to poison his lover in a bid to induce an abortion.

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  19 October 2009

Spain: Demonstrations against abortion law reform

More than a million people are said to have taken part in a march in Madrid to oppose government plans to liberalise Spain’s abortion law.

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