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Extending abortion into Northern Ireland – should or shouldn’t we?

July 9, 2018 Written by Start of Life

At their annual meeting in June the BMA planned an emergency debate to consider the extension of the Abortion Act 967 to Northern Ireland.  As it happened, the debate did not take place due to lack of time, however it reflects how much momentum and […]

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Some Big Public Policy Challenges in Bioethics we can expect in 2018

January 11, 2018 Written by End of Life , Medical Practice , New Technologies , Start of Life

As we look forward to the challenges that 2018 will bring I am struggling to think of a time when we have faced more major public policy challenges in bioethics in so many areas all at once. This is perhaps inevitable given the march of […]

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Commemoration or Celebration? 50 years of Abortion in numbers and pictures

October 19, 2017 Written by Start of Life

The Abortion Act reaches its 50th Anniversary on Friday 27 October 2017. In these last fifty years nearly 9 million unborn babies have been aborted in England, Scotland and Wales. That figure has, of course, also impacted the lives of 9 million women, some of […]

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Reflections on the BMA’s vote to ‘decriminalise’ abortion – ten key observations

July 5, 2017 Written by Medical Practice , Start of Life

Last week delegates at the BMA annual representative meeting (ARM) voted to support the decriminalisation of abortion. You can listen to the whole debate here and five brilliant two-minute speeches against the motion here. Two previous blog posts give the background in more detail here […]

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Over 1,000 doctors reject BMA abortion decriminalisation motion – this is why

June 26, 2017 Written by Medical Practice , Start of Life

Over 1,000 doctors and medical students have signed an open letter urging the British Medical Association (BMA) to reject a motion calling for the complete decriminalisation of abortion. Also, just under 21,000 members of the public have signed a similar petition on Citizen Go. Motion […]