An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Comment and opinion
 
 
25 April 2012

The public is being misled about pre-signed abortion certificates

Health secretary Andrew Lansley’s attack on doctors pre-signing abortion certificates is both wrong in law and ignores the realities of medical life, writes Barbara Hewson in Solicitors Journal.

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  23 April 2012

Why ‘choice’ matters

In the latest issue of Conscience magazine, Ann Furedi challenges the argument that ‘choice’ does not do justice to women’s abortion decisions.

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  26 March 2012

‘Abortion: the case for change’

A Guardian editorial on 26 March argues that ‘A woman’s right to choose is not best defended by legislation that on paper at least excludes her views’. 

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  22 March 2012

Commentary: The Abortion Act’s paternalism belongs to the 1960s

Women, not doctors, should decide whether they need an abortion, writes Sally Sheldon in the Guardian.

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19 March 2012

Why anti-abortion activists should not intimidate women

Ann Furedi, chief executive of BPAS, writes on CNN.

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  19 March 2012

How anti-abortionists are upping the ante

Heated debate about abortion is good - but pro-lifers’ new tactic of harassing individual women and doctors is cowardly and wrong. By Jennie Bristow.

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  1 March 2012

Abortion for reason of sex: correcting some basic misunderstandings of the law

By Sally Sheldon, Professor of Medical Law at the University of Kent. 

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