An update on issues relating to abortion,
produced for bpas
 
Monthly archive: April 2012
 
  17 April 2012

UK: The effect on use of making emergency contraception available free of charge

The authors concluded that neither availability from the pharmacy nor removal of a charge for EC has increased its use among women having an abortion in Scotland. From Contraception. 

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  17 April 2012

Switzerland: The deregulation of emergency contraception

This study asked whether, six years after deregulation of emergency contraception in Switzerland, free access has induced changes in the profile of clients attending an emergency pharmacy in Zürich. From The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care. 

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  17 April 2012

UK: Morning-after pill ‘courier’ scheme launched

A new service provided by the internet medical practice DrEd.com. will allow women to order emergency contraception on the internet, so it arrives within two hours, rather than having to see their GP to obtain the drugs.

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  16 April 2012

Spain: University students’ attitudes towards Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy

An evaluation of the future professional trends was performed by analysing the attitudes of university students to the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy (VIP). From Legal Medicine (Tokyo).

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16 April 2012

UK: Abortion providers offer experience to a new generation of doctors

A US group set up to help medical students get training in abortion services is to fund opportunities in the UK for the first time, amid fears that high-profile protest campaigns against terminations and an increasingly politicised climate will deter young doctors from working in the field.

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  16 April 2012

UK: Judge sentences BPAS hacker

An anti-abortion computer hacker who stole the personal details of 10,000 women from the BPAS website has been sentenced to almost three years in prison.

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  13 April 2012

France: Representations and uses of emergency contraception in West Africa

From Social Science and Medicine. 

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