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Abortion... Lest we forget! 1967-2007 Forty Terrible Years, 27/10/07:  On the 27 October, 1967, the Abortion Act was officially passed in the UK Parliament. As Big Ben struck... more...

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We must fight on to end discrimination against disabled babies, 31/01/08
On 28th January 2008 the House of Lords voted to retain the provision within the abortion law which allows abortion up to birth if the baby has a disability. Baroness Masham's amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill aimed at ending this...

Abortion... Lest we forget! 1967-2007 Forty Terrible Years, 27/10/07
On the 27 October, 1967, the Abortion Act was officially passed in the UK Parliament. As Big Ben struck midnight it was the beginning of a day which marks the 40th Anniversary of this Act, an Act which has resulted in the loss of 6.7 million unborn...

"Abortion on demand" is not what Parliament intended, 1/12/06
This week the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (“bpas”) called for the abortion law to be reformed to allow abortion on demand and the removal of the requirement for two doctors to approve an abortion. bpas based their calls for liberalisation of...

Abortion exposes women to higher risk of depression, The Times, 27/10/06
'WOMEN who have abortions are risking depression and other mental illness and should be told of the dangers, a group of leading doctors says today. In a letter to The Times, 15 senior obstetricians and psychiatrists say that new evidence has uncovered a...

“This year my husband and I bought a timeshare...”
"This year my husband and I bought a timeshare. We spent more time with that advisor and being advised of any potential pitfalls than with the bpas advisor and doctors. In fact it took over 8 times as long and we had a 28 day cooling off period." ...

"I knew my choice was wrong and sank into depression," The Times, 27/10/06
'SUE HULBERT, 44, had an abortion in May 2000 and is only now recovering from the depression and psychosis that followed, culminating in an overdose.' To read the full article follow the link below: http: / /www.timesonline.co.uk /article...

Medics issue statement on psychological consequences of abortion, 27/10/06
Statement on Psychological Consequences of Abortion – 39th anniversary of Abortion Act Since 27 October 1967, more than six million abortions have been performed in Britain, over 95 percent on grounds of safeguarding the physical or mental health...

Early Day Motion calling for a review of abortion law receives overwhelming support
EDM 2379 - REVIEW OF ABORTION LEGISLATION - 15.06.2006 Smith, Geraldine 130 signatures That this House endorses Recommendation 77 of the Report of the Science and Technology Committee, Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law; and calls on...

Churchmen back woman who survived being aborted, The Daily Telegraph, 07/12/05
'Church leaders gave their support yesterday to a pro-life campaigner who survived an attempt to abort her. Gianna Jessen, 28, was at the House of Commons to address the Alive and Kicking campaign, which is lobbying for a reduction of the abortion...

'I survived an abortion attempt,' BBC News Online, 06/12/05
'Gianna Jessen's mother was seven-and-a-half months pregnant when it was decided to abort the foetus she was carrying. A saline solution was injected into Gianna's mother's womb, which doctors thought would kill the foetus within hours. ...

Gianna Jessen was aborted at 7½ months. She survived. Astonishingly, she has forgiven her mother for trying to kill her, The Sunday Telegraph, 04/12/05
'Gianna Jessen grew up believing that she was born with cerebral palsy because she had been delivered prematurely in a particularly traumatic birth. That was the story told to her by her adoptive mother and it was not until she was 12 years old...

Gianna Jessen: I was aborted at seven and a half months, The Independent on Sunday, 04/12/05
'Reports last week that 50 babies a year are still alive after an abortion remind Gianna Jessen of her extraordinary start in life. Interview by Julia Stuart Sunday, 4 December 2005 My biological mother was seven-and-a-half months pregnant...

Fifty babies a year are alive after abortion, The Sunday Times, 27/11/05
'A GOVERNMENT agency is launching an inquiry into doctors' reports that up to 50 babies a year are born alive after botched National Health Service abortions.' To read the full article click here

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