An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
UK abortion law
 
 
21 October 2008

Comment: It’s time to ditch the two-doctors rule

Sally Sheldon explains why she and 84 other academics have launched a campaign to reform Britain’s abortion law. 

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  20 October 2008

Parliament to debate abortion law

The delayed Report Stage of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill has been scheduled for Wednesday 22nd October. MPs will debate and vote on several proposed amendments to abortion law from both pro-choice and anti-abortion MPs.

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  19 October 2008

Northern Ireland: Abortion Act provokes rallies

Pro-choice and anti-abortion campaigners have been holding rallies in support of, and in opposition to, an attempt to change the law on abortion, ahead of the Parliamentary debate on Wednesday.

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  17 October 2008

Academics call to modernise abortion law

Britain’s 40-year-old abortion law flouts the legal principles that underpin modern medical practice, 85 academic lawyers and ethicists say today in a letter to The Times (London). 

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  14 October 2008

HFEA chief hits out at abortion law debate

Plans to overhaul Britain’s fertility laws have been held up by political squabbling over abortion rights, the head of the country’s fertility watchdog has said.

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  10 October 2008

Abortion law amendment proposes mandatory counselling

MPs Angela Watkinson, Ann Widdecombe and others have tabled an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, proposing that women seeking abortion are given ‘a suitable opportunity to receive counselling’, and ‘a description of … the potential post-termination physical, psychological and psychiatric risks associated with the termination of pregnancy’. 

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  3 October 2008

Row over Catholics and abortion law

The Archbishop of Cardiff has called upon Catholics to oppose plans to liberalise the abortion laws, to criticism from pro-choice advocates.

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