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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BSACP/RSM Joint Conference on 'Excellence in Abortion Care’, Wednesday 11 October 2017
The British Society of Abortion Care Providers (BSACP) and the RSM’s Sexuality & Sexual Health Section are jointly organising a one-day conference on ‘Excellence...
‘Doctors, Conscience and Abortion Law and Practice’ Workshop, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, 29 June 2017
On Thursday 29th June I attended a conference at the University of Kent entitled ‘Doctors, Conscience and Abortion Law and Practice’ organised by Dr...
BMA Doctors Support the Decriminalisation of Abortion
27 June 2017 Currently women in England and Wales have to prove to a doctor that carrying on with the pregnancy is detrimental to health...