Tag Archives: Abortion Act
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‘Don’t bother the midwife’: abortion as a parable for assisted suicide

May 27, 2021 Written by End of Life , Society , Start of Life

The current series of Call the Midwife is set in 1966. We dispensed with World Cup fever in about half an episode and are now focussing on other things in the news that year. The most significant of these, from a midwifery perspective, was David […]

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Why is Royal College of GP’s so keen to decriminalise abortion?

April 9, 2019 Written by Start of Life

In February the Royal College of General Practitioners  (RCGP) announced their support for the decriminalisation of abortion. This decision was based on a poll, which only 8.2% of their 53,724 members responded to. 62% of those responding said they supported decriminalisation. The RCGP now joins […]

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Two giants are approaching; are we ready for them?

March 27, 2019 Written by Start of Life

On November 23rd a radical bill to decriminalise abortion and impose it on Northern Ireland was stopped in its tracks thanks to opposition led by Christopher Chope MP. The status quo is preserved for now – but it’s no time for us to rest on our laurels. The Royal College of […]

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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 […]