The Daily Telegraph’s allegations about sex selective abortion are part of a shameless attempt to discredit abortion providers and provide a justification for the Department of Health’s reforms to abortion counselling services, argues Jennie Bristow.
The UK Independent reports on the case of Jennie Linn McCormack, the single mother in Idaho who took the abortion pill and ‘is now fighting a landmark prosecution in a conservative state’.
Recent indications of public opinion, commissioned from different sources, cast doubt on the presumption that voters who identify themselves as Conservative or Christian favour a tightening of the abortion laws.
The White House has announced modified plans to require all women to have access to contraception, attempting to stem anger from Catholic leaders, BBC News Online reports.
This study found that only half the women fast-tracked for intrauterine contraception actually attended and these tended to be women who were pre-existing clients of the family planning clinic. From Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care.
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