An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
'Late' abortion
 
  2 November 2011

South Africa: Health care providers’ perspectives on public second trimester abortion services

This study aimed to understand better what doctors, nurses and hospital managers involved in second trimester abortion care thought about these services and how they could be improved. From Journal of Biosocial Sciences

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  28 September 2011

Thailand: Outcomes of pregnancy termination by misoprostol at 14-32 weeks of gestation

This is a a retrospective, descriptive study based on a 10-year-experience of misoprostol use at Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital. From the Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

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  7 September 2011

USA: Cervical preparation for surgical abortion between 12 and 18 weeks of gestation

This study investigated the safety and efficacy of using misoprostol and Dilapan-S™ hygroscopic cervical dilators to prepare the cervix for surgical abortion from 12 to 18 weeks of gestation in an outpatient office setting. From Contraception.

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  29 June 2011

UK: Doctors reject abortion time limit reduction

Doctors have rejected calls for the British Medical Association to start campaigning for a cut in the legal time limit for abortion from 24 to 20 weeks.

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  31 May 2011

UK: ‘I saw my son’s bleak future and knew I had to abort him’

Sara Carpenter writes in the Daily Mail of her heartrending decision to have an abortion at 18 weeks’ gestation, following a prenatal diagnosis of spina bifida. 

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3 May 2011

Fetal anomaly and the distortion of the abortion debate

The anti-abortion lobby’s obsession with ‘Ground E’ terminations reveals its vindictive use of statistics. By Jennie Bristow.

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  23 March 2011

UK: ‘Cleft palate’ cleric back in the news

The Daily Mail carries an interview with Joanna Jepson, who in 2002 brought a judicial review of a case in which a woman had aborted a fetus with a cleft palate after 24 weeks. 

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