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Sally Sheldon
It’s time to ditch
the two-doctors rule
Sally Sheldon on why she and 84 other academics have launched a campaign to reform Britain’s paternalistic abortion law.
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| Thursday 16 October 2008 |
Ellie Lee
The de-moralisation of a woman’s right to choose
Isolated by popular opinion, the anti-choice lobby now uses psuedo-science rather than moral outrage to try to curb access to abortion.
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| Monday 2 June 2008 |
Wendy Savage
Stop doctoring the statistics on abortion
Claims that gynaecologists’ moral objections are pushing ‘late’ abortions outside the NHS are greatly exaggerated.
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| Thursday 22 May 2008 |
Ann Furedi
Abortion in Britain: the debate ain’t over yet
Ann Furedi welcomes British MPs’ defence of the 24-week time limit, but says much more can be done to free up and streamline abortion services.
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| Thursday 15 May 2008 |
Jennie Bristow
Abortion: 24 reasons to defend 24 weeks
A Tory MP has unveiled 20 reasons why the time limit for abortion should be lowered to 20 weeks. Here are 24 reasons why it should stay as it is.
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| Thursday 15 May 2008 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Abortion: get out the vote
An academic offers tips on how you can pressure your MP to turn up to Tuesday’s vote in parliament and defend the 24-week limit.
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| Monday 31 March 2008 |
Ann Furedi
Why rising abortion rates are not a problem
Let’s welcome the fact that women take motherhood so seriously that, with the aid of abortion, they put it off till they’re ready.
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| Monday 17 March 2008 |
Ann Furedi
Abortion
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| Friday 22 February 2008 |
Dominic Standish
Playing politics with abortion
Dominic Standish reports from Italy on how politicians are jumping on an anti-abortion bandwagon in the run to April’s elections.
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| Friday 7 December 2007 |
Mick Hume
From Iraq troops to abortion law: what's the point?
Read Mick Hume's columns in The Times (London).
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| Monday 22 October 2007 |
Jennie Bristow
Abortion: stop hiding behind The Science
With anti-abortionists pushing 'scientific evidence' on fetal viability, it is time to restate the moral case for a woman's right to choose.
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| Monday 22 October 2007 |
Ellie Lee
Let us decriminalise abortion altogether
Did you know that abortion is still formally illegal in the UK? Here's why the 1967 Abortion Act needs to be overhauled.
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| Monday 22 October 2007 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Abortion: What You Didn’t Need To See
The Channel 4 Dispatches documentary on late abortion and fetal pain was a gratuitous and confused mess.
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| Friday 28 September 2007 |
Ann Furedi
The first casualty of the abortion wars: truth
In The Politics of Abortion, Anne Hendershott claims the US Democrats are obsessively committed to a woman’s right to choose. If only.
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| Thursday 20 September 2007 |
Brendan O’Neill
The real Amnesty-abortion scandal
Forget the Catholic Church’s predictable stance on abortion. Why is a human rights group so cavalier about a woman’s right to choose?
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| Monday 25 June 2007 |
Ann Furedi
Let us decriminalise abortion altogether
It's high time we had a frank inquiry into England's Abortion Act, which remains, on paper, one of the most restrictive in the Western world.
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| Wednesday 16 May 2007 |
Barbara Hewson
Ireland’s cruel and unusual abortion law
The Irish authorities’ attempt to stop a 17-year-old whose fetus had no head from travelling abroad for an abortion could be a tipping point.
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| Wednesday 25 April 2007 |
Ellie Lee
Abortion: better ‘late’ than never
A contributor to a controversial study outlines the reasons why women need access to abortion - even five months after becoming pregnant.
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| Sunday 19 November 2006 |
Ann Furedi
Abortion: some messages can’t be massaged
It's time to ditch the spin and tell the truth about why women have abortions, and what would happen if they were denied them.
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| Thursday 2 November 2006 |
Ellie Lee
Abort these lazy anti-choice arguments
How a tentative study from New Zealand about abortion and mental health was turned into cast-iron evidence that abortion makes women mad.
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