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Virtual Joint BSACP/RSM Annual Conference on Monday 12 October 2020 - Save the Date!

Posted on 10 August 2020

The programme and registration details for the Joint BSACP/RSM Conference on Monday 12 October 2020, which this year will be a virtual/online event held...

Ireland's First Annual Report on Abortion Statistics Published

Posted on 10 July 2020

30 June 2020 The first annual report on abortion statistics for the year ending 31 December 2019 was published today. The report indicates that 6666 pregnant...

Abortion Provision in Northern Ireland

Abortion Provision in Northern Ireland – Liberalised and Yet Still Restrained

Posted on 26 June 2020

26 June 2020 Years of campaigning; thousands of women forced to travel to the ‘mainland’ or procure abortions from online sources or backstreet means; a...

Guernsey Abortion Laws to be 'Modernised'

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24 June 2020 Abortion in Guernsey is set to be ‘modernised’, following the States approval of amending the law. The reforms to the 1997 law...

A Constructivist Vision of the First-Trimester Abortion Experience

Posted on 19 June 2020

19 June 2020 In an article published online today in Health and Human Rights Journal, the authors critically assess the evidence about how a high-quality...

Northern Ireland Abortion Regulations Pass Final Westminster Vote

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17 June 2020 Abortion regulations which came into effect in Northern Ireland in March 2020 have passed their final legislative hurdle in Westminster. The laws...

Abortions in England and Wales Reach Record High in 2019

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11 June 2020 A record number of women in England and Wales had an abortion last year, and numbers rose particularly sharply among women aged...

The Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2020

Posted on 4 June 2020

4 June 2020 A briefing on The Abortion (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2002 has been compiled by a group of professional medical bodies, service providers, and...

New Books on Abortion

Two New Books on Abortion Themes

Posted on 3 June 2020

3 June 2020 Assuming (perhaps erroneously?!) that in the current climate people may perhaps have more time available for leisure activities such as reading, we...