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'BMA both unprofessional and dishonest in providing misleading information to delegates on abortion vote’, says CMF (30/06/2005)
The Christian Medical Fellowship has expressed its sadness about the BMA vote today rejecting a lowering of the upper limit for abortion for healthy babies by a three to one...
The Evangelical Alliance calls for a public debate on abortion (22/03/2005)
One million strong Evangelical Alliance backs calls for review of existing law. The Evangelical Alliance has today called for an open debate on lowering the legal limit on abortions in...
No charges in late abortion case
16th March 2005:
The Crown Prosecution Service have announced that charges will not be brought against the two doctors who terminated a pregnancy beyond 24 weeks because the fetus had a cleft palate. The case was brought to the media's attention in December 2003...
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Lothian Health Board Scheme to use Morning After Pill to reduce Abortions was "Misguided and ignored facts" says Christian Medical Fellowship (03/12/2004)
The scheme by Lothian Health Board to reduce unwanted pregnancies and abortions through giving women advance supplies of the morning-after-pill has been condemned as “misguided and ignorant of the facts”...
BPAS controversy
26th November 2004:
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), Britain’s leading abortion provider, has become the subject of controversy after a Telegraph exposé revealed that they have referred women to Spain for abortions after the UK legal limit of 24...
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(published: Telegraph 2004; 10 October, Guardian 2004; 25 November, bbc.co.uk 2004; 26 November)
Second pregnancy at 15
18th November 2004:
A teenager who made national headlines by having an abortion at 14 years old without her mother's knowledge has become pregnant again. Melissa Smith, now 15, is determined to keep this baby, which is believed to have the same father....
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(published: Guardian 2004; 18 November, Telegraph 2004; 18 November, Times 2004; 23 October, Nucleus 2004; July:5)
Thirty years ago less than 20% of babies born before 28 weeks of gestation survived. But over the last 30 years advances in medical care at the beginning of life have transformed the prospects of survival for babies born extremely prematurely. Currently in major centres in the UK more than...
On April 27 1938 a girl of 14 was raped by a group of guardsmen at Wellington Barracks in west London. She became pregnant as a result. The first doctor asked to terminate the pregnancy was a Roman Catholic who refused. The second doctor, Aleck Bourne, admitted the girl to...
In April, the media wowed us with heartwarming reports about the latest medical technology: three dimensional fetal ultrasound. Large, colour pictures pioneered by Professor Stuart Campbell’s team at London’s Create Health Clinic, displayed the unborn babies in amazing detail. The new scanners demonstrated fetuses at twelve weeks stretching, kicking and...
Tony Blair's Comments Backing Review of Law on Abortion 'A Step in the Right Direction' says Christian Medical Fellowship (08/07/2004)
Current law is discriminatory in terms of neurological capacity and age warns CMF The Christian Medical Fellowship (CMF) has today welcomed Tony Blair’s comments that the Government is to consider...
