An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: January 2010
 
  29 January 2010

AR update, 29 January 2010

Women’s opinions on the home management of Early Medical Abortion in the UK; Abortion doctors: credit where it’s due; Abortion jabberwocky: the need for better terminology, and more ...

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29 January 2010

Abortion doctors: credit where it’s due

After forty years of legal abortion in Britain, the doctors’ contribution is at last being recognised as a part of mainstream healthcare. Commentary by Jennie Bristow, Editor, Abortion Review.

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  29 January 2010

UK: Excitement surrounds new form of emergency contraception

Ulipristal acetate, a recently licensed type of EC, may offer women protection from pregnancy even when taken five days after sex.

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  29 January 2010

USA: George Tiller’s killer guilty of murder

A man who said he killed the Kansas abortion doctor to save the lives of unborn babies has been found guilty of first-degree murder.

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  28 January 2010

Ulipristal acetate versus levonorgestrel for emergency contraception

This study found that ulipristal acetate provides women and health-care providers with an effective alternative for emergency contraception that can be used up to 5 days after unprotected sexual intercourse. Published in The Lancet.

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28 January 2010

Abortion jabberwocky: the need for better terminology

A lively critique of the misleading language used about abortion, published in the journal Contraception.

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  28 January 2010

Ireland: New calls for change in abortion law

The Human Rights Watch organisation has called on the Irish government to decriminalise abortion, and a new survey suggests that two-thirds of 18-34-year-olds believe abortion should be legal.

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