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‘DIY abortion’ consultations – some ideas for your submissions

January 28, 2021 Written by Start of Life

The English and Welsh consultations into extending the provision for early medical abortion (EMA) to take place at home beyond the coronavirus crisis are both underway. They close on 26 February and 23 February respectively. These don’t differ significantly from the Scottish consultation, which closed […]

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The COVID vaccine: Christians in crisis or clear conscience?

November 11, 2020 Written by Medical Practice

The coronavirus pandemic has brought challenges and opportunities to all fields of healthcare, whether that be how GP surgeries operate, how hospital beds are allocated or how pioneering research for treatments is conducted. Alongside these changes, many ethical dilemmas have emerged over the past year. […]

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The violence of abortion and the domestic abuse bill

September 10, 2020 Written by Start of Life

It was 1998. I was a young medical intern working in a small hospital in an Indian village. I had looked forward to being posted there as it was meant to be a ‘rest period’ after many sleepless months of working in surgery and hospital […]

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Bad news for the unborn

June 18, 2020 Written by Start of Life

The latest figures from the ONS reveal that by the beginning of June, 47,820 people in England and Wales had died as a result of contracting COVID-19. Half a million had died worldwide. Yet there is a greater killer at large, one whose death toll, […]

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Coronavirus emergency measures remove safeguards around ‘home abortions’

April 2, 2020 Written by Medical Practice , Start of Life

Under the guise of the coronavirus lockdown, abortion campaigners have taken the opportunity to lobby the UK Government to substantially change the rules around abortion pills, something they have wanted to do for years, as this blog explains. This week, they have been successful in their […]