Diane Abbott has resigned from a cross-party group on counselling given to pregnant women by abortion providers, criticising it as a “front” for those who want it outlawed, BBC News Online reports.
The Government is pressing ahead with changes that could see women considering abortion given the right to ‘independent counselling’ - despite publicly backing down last year, the Sunday Telegraph reports.
In her new blog for Abortion Review, Clare Murphy, BPAS Director of Press and Public Policy, challenges the claim that ‘taxpayers spend £30million a year more on abortion than previously thought’.
The American Civil Liberties Union and four other groups sued to challenge a new North Carolina law requiring abortion providers to display and describe ultrasound images of a fetus, the Los Angeles Times reports.
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