An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
UK news
 
 
26 March 2012

UK: Anti-abortionists grow bold after making friends in high places

’This is a witch-hunt,’ say abortion providers, who claim spot checks on clinics have political motives. The Guardian reports.

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  23 March 2012

UK: Health Secretary launches shock wave of inspections on abortion clinics

The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, yesterday announced to the UK media that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) would be carrying out a series of ‘unannounced inspections’ on abortion clinics throughout the UK to ensure that doctors are complying with the ‘spirit and the letter’ of the 1967 Abortion Act. Jennie Bristow reports.

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  23 March 2012

UK: Abortion clinic checks ‘politically driven’

The chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) has said that the health secretary’s ordering of unannounced inspections at abortion clinics in England is ‘politically driven. 

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  14 March 2012

UK: Hacker arrested over BPAS website

A West Midlands man has been remanded in custody after admitting to breaking into the British Pregnancy Advisory Service website on 8 March.

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  1 March 2012

UK: Scottish midwives lose conscientious objection case

Two Roman Catholic midwives have lost a legal battle to avoid supervising staff taking part in abortion procedures, claiming that this violated their human rights. 

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14 February 2012

UK: Christians and conservative voters not opposed to abortion, say polls

Recent indications of public opinion, commissioned from different sources, cast doubt on the presumption that voters who identify themselves as Conservative or Christian favour a tightening of the abortion laws.

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26 January 2012

UK: Shadow health minister resigns from abortion consultation

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.

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