29th May
By PA News Agency
Medical leaders have made a renewed call for legislation to protect women from “unacceptable” harassment and intimidation outside abortion clinics.
The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH), which represents more than 14,000 UK doctors, has issued a new position statement calling for a nationwide network of buffer zones around abortion clinics.
Scotland and Wales set to make the postal service permanent, while ministers in England end the trial
Denis Campbell Health policy editor
Tue 29 Mar 2022
Women in England will only be able to access abortion tablets online illegally because ministers are ending the “pills by post” trial, MPs have been told before a crucial Commons vote on the scheme.
Medical groups, pro-choice campaigners and women’s organisations say the government’s decision to end the two-year experiment will lead to those seeking a termination breaking the law and risking criminal charges.
‘There is no reason for governments to delay making telemedicine for early medical abortion a permanent feature of healthcare,’ doctors say
Kate Ng
Jan 31, 2022
Women will be forced into illegal abortions if the government does not extend rules that allow abortion pills to be taken at home, doctors have warned.
Healthcare providers from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) are concerned about plans to scrap the rules that were put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Experts believe the increase is partly because of changes to the law
By Richard Ault, Chief Feature Writer
17 JUL 2021
During the year Covid-19 first arrived in the UK, bringing dramatic changes to daily life, there were 2,660 abortions carried out in Staffordshire.
That was up from 2,653 in 2019 and the highest ever recorded in the area, according to figures from the Department of Health and Social Care.
Increase put down to women being able to seek treatment at home and financial uncertainty
Sarah Marsh
Thu 10 Jun 2021
A record number of women in England and Wales had an abortion last year, with the rise particularly among women aged 30 and over.
A total of 209,917 abortions were reported in 2020, with the numbers rising year on year and up from 207,384 in 2019. The largest increases in abortion rates by age were among women aged 30 to 34 with a rise from 16.5 per 1,000 in 2010 to 21.9 in 2020.
Preventing abortion services from operating does not stop women seeking terminations – this policy's effects have been felt around the world
EDWARD MORRIS, ASHA KASLIWAL
2 February 2021
When Joe Biden signed the executive order to repeal the Global Gag Rule last week, there was an audible sigh of relief from the sexual and reproductive health community around the world.
Four years earlier, President Trump reinstated and later expanded the rule – also known as the Mexico City policy. The policy was initially introduced by President Reagan in 1984 to stop foreign organisations in receipt of United States family planning funding from providing abortion services, information, counseling, referrals or advocacy.
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