An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: June 2010
 
 
25 June 2010

UK: Important new review on fetal awareness published

There is no new evidence to show fetuses feel pain in the womb before 24 weeks, a report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has stated.

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  21 June 2010

AR update, 21 June 2010

Keeping abortion decisions in context; teenagers and ‘repeat abortions’, government guidelines challenged in Northern Ireland; should women’s healthcare needs take priority over doctors’ beliefs?; and more ...

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18 June 2010

Teenagers and ‘repeat abortions’: contraception is not a magic bullet

Commentary by Lisa Hallgarten, director of Education For Choice.

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  18 June 2010

UK: Controversy over teenage ‘repeat abortions’

Government data have disclosed that 89 girls aged 17 or under who terminated a pregnancy last year had had at least two abortions previously, the Daily Telegraph reports. 

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  16 June 2010

Norway: Medical abortion at 63 to 90 days of gestation

The study set out to evaluate medical abortion as a treatment alternative for late first-trimester abortions and to evaluate the decrease in beta-hCG after abortion at 63-90 days of gestation. From Obstetrics and Gynecology

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  14 June 2010

Keeping abortion decisions in context

Ann Furedi, writing in BioNews, examines the Sunday Times revelation that some assisted conceptions end in abortion.

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  11 June 2010

UK: Christmas advert revealed

Protestant Churches are joining forces in an advertising campaign that shows a scan of ‘baby Jesus in the Virgin Mary’s womb’, complete with halo, the Times (London) reports.

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