Category: "news"
13th FIAPAC Conference, September 2018
13th FIAPAC Conference on ‘Liberating Women – Removing Barriers and Increasing Access to Abortion Care’, Nantes, France, 14–15 September 2018 A little more than 40 years after the adoption of the Veil law, the care provision of abortion and contraception is being continually modified by input from new organisations, as... read more »
BSACP Request for Evidence for Home Office Review of Protest Activity Outside Abortion Clinics
The Home Office has been tasked by the Home Secretary to undertake an evidence-based in-depth assessment of protest activity and other related pro-life activity outside abortion clinics following concerns about the actions of some campaigners. The text of Sarah Gawley’s letter... read more »
Oireachtas Committee Recommends Abortion Decriminalisation and Free Access up to 12 Weeks with Overwhelming Support for Free Contraception
14 December 2017 An article in The Times newspaper today illustrates two pieces of compelling oral evidence presented to the Oireachtas Committee that were heavily influential in this decision: Abigail Aiken’s data on the number of women known to be buying abortion pills online, and Patricia Lohr’s evidence on flaws... read more »
BSACP/ARHP Joint Webinar on Simultaneous EMA: 14 December 2017
Outcomes with Simultaneous Administration of Mifepristone and Misoprostol for Early Medical Abortion with Patricia Lohr, MD MPH, BPAS Medical Director and BSACP Treasurer Thursday 14 December 2017 at 6:30 PM GMT / 1:30 PM EST This joint webinar with the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) and Association of Reproductive Health... read more »
Health Canada Further Increases Access to Early Medical Abortion
8 November 2017 Abortion was decriminalised in Canada. Health professional scope of practice regulation is now in the jurisdiction of the respective health professional regulatory colleges. In Ontario, nurse practitioners can prescribe and dispense mifepristone if they have undertaken the prescribed training programme. Health Canada has now removed all restrictions... read more »
Joint RSM/BSACP Conference on ‘Excellence in Abortion Care’ at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK on 11 October 2017
On Wednesday 11 October 2017, I attended the joint conference organised by the British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) and the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) with the theme ‘Excellence in Abortion Care’. I was particularly excited to attend, as I am currently the President of the Society... read more »
Scotland is the First UK Country to Allow Women to Take Abortion Pills at Home
26 October 2017 Professor Alan Templeton announced from the podium at the wonderful The Abortion Act 1967 Conference held at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) earlier this week that women in Scotland will soon be able to take the misoprostol component of early medical abortion at home.... read more »
NICE Termination of Pregnancy Guideline - Call for Committee Members
NICE is seeking additional committee members for its Termination of Pregnancy Guideline - see request below. Please feel free to forward this request to relevant colleagues. Applicants should contact Eleanor Howat directly for an application form as this is no longer available on the web. BSACP Administrator read more »
BSACP Welcomes RCOG Council’s Vote in Support of Decriminalisation of Abortion in Britain
22 September 2017 The British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) welcomes today's news that the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) voted to support the decriminalisation of abortion in Britain and called for its regulation in line with other medical procedures. Dr Kate Guthrie, BSACP Co-Chair,... read more »
New Research Finds Access Barriers to Abortion in Great Britain
20 September 2017 A paper published in the journal Contraception gives voice to women who have experienced such difficulty in accessing abortion care in Great Britain that they have resorted to online care on the Internet. The study examined the demographics and circumstances of all women requesting early medication abortion through... read more »