An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Comment and opinion
 
 
22 June 2011

Abortion and the over-forties: Why we shouldn’t be shocked

Commentary by Jennie Bristow, editor of Abortion Review

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1 June 2011

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum

Giving Life a seat on the Sexual Health Forum is a bit like including Jehovah’s Witnesses on a panel to discuss blood-transfusion services, writes Ann Furedi, chief executive of bpas.

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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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  28 May 2011

Commentary: Softly, softly is working for the anti-abortionists

Thanks to new stealth tactics, anti-abortionists are having an undue influence on policy, writes BPAS’ Clare Murphy for the Guardian.

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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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  25 April 2011

Commentary: ‘Babies are not the only children worth adopting’

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Max Pemberton takes issue with Nadine Dorries MP’s ‘bizarre claim’ that adoption is ‘fading out’ because of abortion.

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  18 April 2011

Commentary: ‘Beware the anti-abortionists’ tiny steps towards reform’

Writing in the Guardian, Libby Brooks argues that the combination of US-style activism and big society localism poses a real threat to a woman’s right to choose.

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