An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Abortion news: UK
 
  25 August 2010

Wales: Teenage conception figures released

More than half of teenage conceptions in Wales end in abortion, the Western Mail reports.

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  20 August 2010

UK: Study leads to claims about alcohol and abortion

An article in the Daily Mail claims that ‘the devastating effects of excess alcohol on young women have been spelled out by a major study’, finding that ‘binge drinking “ladettes” are 40 per cent likelier to have an abortion’.

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  9 August 2010

UK: Advertising watchdog rejects abortion ad complaints

Complaints about the first UK television advertisement by an abortion advisory organisation have been rejected by the Advertising Standards Authority.

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  9 August 2010

UK: Abortion provider under fire for providing sexual health services to staff

The Mail on Sunday claims that Marie Stopes International is offering free abortions for staff as a ‘perk of the job’.

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  6 August 2010

UK: Government consultation on family planning in the developing world

The UK Government is to ‘put family planning at the heart of its approach to women’s health in the developing world’ in an attempt to reduce the persistently high number of women who die in pregnancy and childbirth, the Secretary of State for International Development has announced. 

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  27 July 2010

UK: Government to abolish health watchdogs

The Health Protection Agency and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority are to be axed under reforms.

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25 June 2010

UK: Important new review on fetal awareness published

There is no new evidence to show fetuses feel pain in the womb before 24 weeks, a report by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has stated.

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