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

USA: Unborn children as constitutional persons

From Issues in Law and Medicine. 

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8 June 2010

Should women’s healthcare needs take priority over doctors’ beliefs?

Jennie Bristow, editor of Abortion Review, comments on an important new report on conscience and refusal clauses.

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  7 June 2010

UK: About eighty IVF pregnancies per year end in abortion

Figures collected by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority show that one per cent of assisted conceptions account for a tiny proportion of all abortions. 

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  4 June 2010

UK: Reaction to TV abortion advert

The first television advert for abortion, broadcast by Marie Stopes International, has generated positive and negative responses. 

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  4 June 2010

USA: Palin calls for conservative, anti-abortion feminism

Sarah Palin, the former governor for Alaska, has provoked a barrange of commentary with her claims that women who oppose abortion rights are responsible for an ‘emerging, conservative, feminist identity’ and have the power to shape politics and elections around the issue. 

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  3 June 2010

Sweden: Medical abortion in lactating women

The authors concluded that the levels of mifepristone in milk are low, and that breastfeeding can be safely continued in an uninterrupted manner during medical abortion of this kind. From Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 

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  2 June 2010

Denmark: Termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly after 23 weeks of gestation in Europe

The study set out to determine the prevalence of termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly (TOPFA) after 23 weeks of gestation in European countries, and describe the spectrum of anomalies for which late TOPFA is recorded. From BJOG. 

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