Netherlands – Abortion pills to be made available through family doctors

February 9, 2022

Family doctors could be allowed to prescribe abortion pills directly if parliament passes a bill submitted by centre-left parties PvdA and GroenLinks.

The liberal coalition parties VVD and D66 are also supporting the proposed change, which is designed to lower the threshold for women who want to end unwanted pregnancies. A majority of MPs are expected to back the bill, NOS reported.

Continued: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/02/abortion-pills-to-be-made-available-through-family-doctors/

Simon Coveney: Here’s how my thinking shifted on the Eighth Amendment

Simon Coveney: Here's how my thinking shifted on the Eighth Amendment

Simon Coveney
March 26 2018

For most people in Ireland, abortion is not something they want to talk about. It is deeply personal and involves conflicting values.

People’s views are coloured by the most joyous or painful moments in their lives, experienced either alone or with loved ones. For some their position on abortion is a religious belief sincerely held, for others it is a human rights issue. This is a subject that divides society like few others.

Continued: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/simon-coveney-heres-how-my-thinking-shifted-on-the-eighth-amendment-36743798.html

26.03.2018

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Let Irish GPs give out abortion pills, advises UK clinic service

Let Irish GPs give out abortion pills, advises UK clinic service

Ellen Coyne, Senior Ireland Reporter
November 22 2017

Doctors should be allowed to prescribe abortion pills if Ireland is to avoid the “pitfalls” of British abortion law, an Oireachtas committee will be told.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), which runs abortion clinics in the UK, will tell 21 members of the abortion committee today that Ireland should not copy certain aspects of the law in Britain if it decides to bring in legislation of its own.

Continued at source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/let-irish-gps-give-out-abortion-pills-advises-uk-clinic-service-gklvqhc62

22.11.2017