Britain’s childbirth doctors have urged ministers to scrap
laws dating to Victorian times that could see a woman jailed for life for
having an abortion.
Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Abortion. Show all posts
Saturday, 23 September 2017
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Wednesday, 7 December 2016
Rillington Place - Capital Punishment and Abortion
BBC series 'Rillington Place' has details you can use for Capital Punishment (miscarriage of justice leading to execution of Timothy Evans) and episode 2 also includes reference to a 'backstreet' abortion (the type you can use in your evaluation of the issue of abortion. i.e. if abortion had been legal, then women would not have needed to resort to the services of illegal abortionists).
When was Timothy Evans’ name finally cleared?
In 2003 the Home Office’s independent assessor, Lorn Brennan QC
declared that “the conviction of Timothy Evans is now recognised to have been
one of the most notorious, if not the most notorious, miscarriages of justice.”
“There is no evidence to implicate Timothy Evans in the
murder of his wife”, he continued. “She was most probably murdered by
Christie.”
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Sturgeon confirms Scottish talks on free abortions for Northern Irish women
Nicola Sturgeon has confirmed that the Scottish government
is to explore how to allow Northern Irish women to obtain free access to
abortions in Scotland’s NHS hospitals.
Scotland’s first minister, during a visit to Dublin on
Tuesday, said that the Edinburgh devolved government would hold talks with the
Scottish NHS that may enable women from Northern Ireland to have terminations
for free on the health service.
Across the UK, the NHS has so far refused to pay for
abortions for women from Northern Ireland who travel to Britain. The procedure
is only available in Northern Ireland’s hospitals when the pregnancy poses a
direct threat to the mother’s life. It is illegal in all other cases.
Last week. Patrick Harvie MSP, the leader of the Green party
in the Scottish parliament, said it can cost between £400 and £2,000 for a
woman from Northern Ireland to obtain an abortion at a private clinic in
Britain.
READ HERE
Tuesday, 22 November 2016
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