{"id":1862,"date":"2007-01-22T22:43:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T22:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2007-01-22T22:50:46","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T22:50:46","slug":"seven-week-wait-for-an-abortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1862","title":{"rendered":"Seven-week wait for an abortion!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as a cost-cutting measure, some NHS trusts are making women wait <a href = \"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/6287291.stm\">up to seven weeks<\/a> for an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Which means, of course, they&#8217;ll often go beyond the point where it can be carried out by hormone treatment, and will require surgical intervention, which is, no doubt, more costly&#8230;. great decision by the administrators, and a lot of unnecessary strain on the patients.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Health wants 70% of all terminations to be carried out under 10 weeks gestation. According to its latest figures &#8211; from 2005 &#8211; the majority of abortions did take place within this time limit.<br \/>\nBut the data revealed large regional discrepancies, with the worst performing PCTs carrying out only just over a third of terminations within 10 weeks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Definitely not an area where you want a postcode lottery.<\/p>\n<p>It is sad that I have to post this on <a href = \"http:\/\/www.bushvchoice.com\/blog_choice_day.html\">Blog for Choice<\/a> day &#8211; so I should add that we should also celebrate that most women, most of the time in England, Scotland and Wales DO have reasonable access to abortion. (Northern Ireland is another story.)<\/p>\n<p>What we have to do is make sure that access improves &#8211; by removing the two-doctor rule. It should, under normal circumstances, be the decision of a woman alone, helped by a nurse, with doctors involved only when medically necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems as a cost-cutting measure, some NHS trusts are making women wait up to seven weeks for an abortion. Which means, of course, they&#8217;ll often go beyond the point where it can be carried out by hormone treatment, and will require surgical intervention, which is, no doubt, more costly&#8230;. great decision by the administrators, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}