An update on issues relating to abortion,
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Abortion news: UK
 
  18 June 2010

UK: Controversy over teenage ‘repeat abortions’

Government data have disclosed that 89 girls aged 17 or under who terminated a pregnancy last year had had at least two abortions previously, the Daily Telegraph reports. 

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  11 June 2010

UK: Christmas advert revealed

Protestant Churches are joining forces in an advertising campaign that shows a scan of ‘baby Jesus in the Virgin Mary’s womb’, complete with halo, the Times (London) reports.

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  7 June 2010

UK: About eighty IVF pregnancies per year end in abortion

Figures collected by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority show that one per cent of assisted conceptions account for a tiny proportion of all abortions. 

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  4 June 2010

UK: Reaction to TV abortion advert

The first television advert for abortion, broadcast by Marie Stopes International, has generated positive and negative responses. 

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  27 May 2010

Northern Ireland: Anti-abortion campaigners challenge government guidelines

The Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) has won permission to seek a judicial review of the controversial guidance. 

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  26 May 2010

Northern Ireland: Abortion law should change, gynaecologists suggest

A survey claims that the majority of gynaecologists in Northern Ireland ‘do not support the current abortion law as it stands’. 

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  20 May 2010

UK: Controversy over MSI’s television ad

An advertisement by an abortion advisory organisation is to be screened for the first time on UK television.

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