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Conscientious objection ‘may become indefensible’ according to new WHO guidance

June 10, 2022 Written by Global Health and Mission , Medical Practice , Start of Life

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its Abortion Care Guidance recently, ostensibly ‘in a bid to protect the health of women and girls and help prevent over 25 million unsafe abortions that currently occur each year’. The implication throughout the guidance is that unsafe […]

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Wrongful conception – the latest weapon in culling disability?

January 10, 2022 Written by Humanity , Start of Life

At the end of November, in the High Court, the case of Toombes v Dr Philip Mitchell was heard before Rosalind Coe QC, acting judge. The claimant, 20-year-old Evie Toombes, sued her mother’s GP, Dr Mitchell, on the grounds of her own wrongful conception. Had […]

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Downright Discrimination – the issues in the Heidi Crowter case

August 3, 2021 Written by Start of Life

On July 6th and 7th 2021, Heidi Crowter made history. She is the first woman with Down syndrome to take the State to court over the discrimination inherent in our abortion law. Her co-claimants Máire Lea-Wilson and her son Aidan (pictured) also feel passionately about […]

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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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DIY abortion: one year on

March 30, 2021 Written by Medical Practice , Start of Life

On this day last year, the UK Government, after a bizarre double-u-turn, made the home an approved ‘class of place’ for early medical abortion up to ten weeks. Women could now obtain both mifepristone and misoprostol after just a phone or video consultation with an […]