An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: January 2009
 
  5 January 2009

Northern Ireland: More women travelling for abortion

A record number of women from Northern Ireland are travelling to England and Wales to terminate a pregnancy, the Belfast Telegraph reports. 

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5 January 2009

BPAS Chief Executive appointed to government advisory committee

Ann Furedi is Contraception and Abortion Care specialist advisor to the Independent Advisory Group on Sexual Health and HIV. 

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  5 January 2009

Honours for RCOG’s past president

The leading fertility expert Professor Allan Templeton has been knighted for services to medicine.

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18 December 2008

Fetal tissue donation, STI screening, and improving contraception

Abigail Fitzgibbon, BPAS press and public policy officer, reports on the recent Medical and Nursing Conference.

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  18 December 2008

The role of nurses in abortion services

Lisa Maith, parliamentary officer of the Royal College of Nursing, discusses the background to the RCN’s new guidance.

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  17 December 2008

Comment: The real issue behind the abortion debate

Reproductive justice for women cannot be separated from women’s economic and social well-being, argues Jeanne Flavin in the San Francisco Chronicle.

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  16 December 2008

USA: Loss rates with multifetal pregnancy reduction

This study, published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, was undertaken to report on the outcome of multifetal pregnancy reduction in the most up-to-date largest single centre experience with this procedure.

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