Two pieces of good news on abortion in the UK:
*The BMA medical ethics committee has recommended that the two-doctor rule be removed, nurses and midwives be able to provide abortions, and restrictions on where an abortion can be carried out be loosened. This is in recognition of medical advances, and that the current system is making women wait much longer for abortions than is necessary, which of course means later, more medically risky, abortions. (Although of course abortion is still safer than pregnancy.)
* And on the political side there is a parliamentary push for a change in the 1967 law.
Whatever your personal stance on the issue, such a change in the law would not mean more abortions – just safer, less stressful ones, i.e. we would stop penalising, punishing women for getting pregnant.
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