Category: "news"
Changes Planned in Wales to Allow Home Use of Misoprostol
18 April 2018 BASCP is delighted at the news that the Welsh Government intends following suit with Scotland to allow women to use misoprostol at home for early medical abortion. Health Secretary Vaughan Gething made the announcement yesterday in the Senedd (National Assembly for Wales). Welsh clinicians are strongly behind the... read more »
Scottish Abortion Care Providers (SACP) Conference, Glasgow, UK, Friday 27 April 2018
The programme for this conference covers a broad range of timely topics including: Abortion Act Devolution – 2 years on; Ultra Early Medical Abortion in Scotland; Scottish Women and Women on the Web; Telemedicine for Abortion Care; and Female Genital Mutilation. The conference programme can be viewed here: https://bsacp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SACP-PROGRAMME-2018.pdf The application form can be downloaded... read more »
Doctors for Choice UK: How Clinicians Can Shape the Future of Abortion Care, Friday 27 April 2018
Friday 27 April 2018, University College London (UCL), London, UK Doctors for Choice UK marks the 50th anniversary of the implementation of the 1967 Abortion Act and celebrates half a century of safe abortion in mainland UK by looking at past, present and future abortion care and considering the ways clinicians... read more »
Abortion Care for Northern Irish Citizens: What Comes Next?
13 April 2018 When the news broke on 29 June 2017 that the newly elected Conservative government would allocate funding for pregnant women and people from Northern Ireland (NI) to access abortion in mainland Britain, this was met with a very positive response from feminists and campaigners in NI. I... read more »
Joint ARHP/BSACP Webinar on ‘Stigma and Abortion Provision’ on Thursday 15 March 2018
The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP) and the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) are jointly producing a series of webinars that focus on issues facing abortion care providers in the UK and the USA. The next webinar in the series is on ‘Stigma and Abortion Provision’ and will... read more »
Possible Home Use of Misoprostol in Wales
8 March 2018 Clinicians in Wales effectively lobby Welsh Politicians and the BBC to raise awareness of the possibility that the law could be amended in Wales as it has in Scotland to make a woman's home a legal place to use abortion pills. The following link from the BBC... read more »
UK Government Response to the 2017 CEDAW Report
25 February 2018 The response of the UK Government to the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) 2017 Report can be read in full (advance unedited version) here: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CEDAW/Shared%20Documents/GBR/INT_CEDAW_ITB_GBR_8638_E.pdfread more »
Second Reading of the Isle of Man Abortion Reform Bill 2018
23 February 2018 The Isle of Man Abortion Reform Bill 2018 received its Second Reading on 30 January 2018 by a unanimous vote (22-0). The debate transcript is at the following link: http://www.tynwald.org.im/business/OPHansardIndex1618/1696.pdf read more »
Abortion in the 21st Century: Is Decriminalisation on the Horizon?
Abortion, if it is not carried out according to the strict requirements of the Abortion Act 1967, is technically still a criminal offence in England and Wales, carrying a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. Over the past year, there has been increasing support from Members of Parliament (MPs) and... read more »
“I told my Mum I was going on an R.E. trip” now available on iPlayer
The Performance Live, BBC and Arts Council England commissioned TV piece “I told my Mum I was going on an R.E. trip” was aired on BBC Two on Saturday 20 January 2018 at 11.15pm. For those who missed the live broadcast, it is available on BBC iPlayer from 20... read more »