Judge condemns forced contraception plan; GPs to gain commissioning powers; Next-generation emergency contraceptive pill gains FDA approval, and more ...
A council’s plan to force contraception upon a woman with a low IQ was ‘essentially a horrendous prospect’ that has ‘shades of social engineering’, a judge has said.
An article in the Daily Mail claims that ‘the devastating effects of excess alcohol on young women have been spelled out by a major study’, finding that ‘binge drinking “ladettes” are 40 per cent likelier to have an abortion’.
The authors report a case of a retained single intrauterine pregnancy after an elective vacuum aspiration of a dichorionic-diamniotic twin gestation. From Obstetrics and Gynecology.
A next-generation emergency contraceptive pill that can prevent unwanted pregnancy up to five days after unprotected sex has gained final approval from the Food and Drug Administration, the Money Times reports.