An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
UK abortion law
 
  22 April 2010

‘Will Christians swing the 2010 UK election?’

An article by Justin Parkinson on BBC News Online asks whether political candidates may be more likely to discuss their religious beliefs than is usually the case in British elections. 

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  14 February 2010

UK: Tory MPs’ abortion opinions

A significant number of Conservative candidates in winnable seats hold strong anti-abortion views, the Financial Times reports.

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11 June 2009

Abortion and Clinical Practice

The third in a series of special editions of Abortion Review, presenting papers from the landmark BPAS conference ‘The Future of Abortion’.

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  14 November 2008

No change to NI abortion law, says Woodward

Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward has insisted the Government will not make any moves to extend the abortion laws. 

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  5 November 2008

UK government under pressure to change Northern Ireland abortion laws

Thirteen MPs, led by Labour’s Diane Abbott, have signed a Commons motion calling for legal abortion for women across the United Kingdom. 

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  23 October 2008

MPs support HFE Bill

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill has cleared its Commons stages after a row about the lack of debate on reforming abortion laws.

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  22 October 2008

Anger at government block on abortion debate

The UK government has introduced a motion that will effectively block the first Commons debate with the power to change the abortion law for 18 years.

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