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Slight rise in NI abortion rate
(BBC 10/11/2009)
Legal abortions carried out in Northern Ireland averaged almost two per week last year, according to the Department of Health. Official figures released in response to an assembly question asked by SDLP MLA Pat Ramsey revealed that 92 women had pregnancy terminations in 2008. Seventy nine women underwent the procedure in NI the previous year. Abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland, except when the mother's life is at risk.
Late abortions data to be public
(BBC 15/10/2009)
The government has been ordered to publish data about the number of late abortions carried out because of disability. The ruling has been made by the Information Commissioner. Ministers have been told to release the data for England and Wales within the next month. This is the latest stage in a complex legal battle which began six years ago over a late abortion carried out because of a baby with a cleft palate. Anti-abortion campaigners uncovered the case from official statistics.
Abortions fall as fewer women have unwanted pregnancies
(The Scotsman 14/10/2009)
THE number of women having an abortion or unintended pregnancy is dropping worldwide as the use of contraception increases, a report says. Abortions fell from an estimated 45.5 million in 1995 to 41.6m in 2003, the research showed. But experts from the Guttmacher Institute - a not-for-profit sexual health organisation based in the United States - said too many women are still undergoing unsafe abortions, with 32 countries having laws that make abortion illegal.
95 abortions carried out on girls aged 14 or under
(The Scotsman 14/08/2009)
ABORTIONS were carried out on nearly 100 Scottish girls aged 14 or younger last year, figures revealed today. And over the last nine years, nearly 3,000 girls aged 15 or younger had abortions. Eight of the youngsters who underwent terminations between 2001 and 2008 were just 12, the figures revealed. The figures were disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information request.
Abortion pill approved in Italy
(BBC 31/07/2009)
Italy's drug regulation agency has approved the use of the abortion pill RU486, also known as mifepristone, prompting protests from the Vatican. The Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency (AIFA) ruled late on Thursday that the drug would not be sold in pharmacies and only be administered by doctors. The pill could only be taken up to the seventh week of pregnancy, it said. On Thursday, the Vatican said it would excommunicate doctors who prescribed the drug and patients who used it.
Abortion ban
(BBC 28/07/2009)
Amnesty International has called on Nicaragua to repeal a law introduced last year criminalising abortion in all circumstances. After a fact-finding mission, Amnesty says in its report that the total ban on abortion "marks a grave departure from the government's commitment to improving social equality and has severe consequences for the protection of human rights for women and girls". Amnesty points out that the ban allows no exceptions - even when pregnancy risks the life of the woman.
Scandal of the girls as young as 12 having abortions every year
(Telegraph 27/06/2009)
Abortions are being carried out on dozens of girls aged 12 and 13 according to official figures.
US abortion doctor is shot dead
(BBC 01/06/2009)
A prominent US abortion doctor has been shot dead at a church in the city of Wichita, Kansas. Dr George Tiller, one of the few US doctors who performed late-term abortions, had been vilified by anti-abortionists in the US. The gunman fled in a car, but officials say a suspect is now in custody. US Attorney General Eric Holder said the US would offer protection to "appropriate people and facilities" in the wake of Dr Tillers' killing.
Late abortion tribunal challenge
(BBC 29/05/2009)
Pro-life campaigners are continuing their fight for the publication of details of late medical abortions. An information tribunal is set to hear a Department of Health appeal that such information should not be published. It is legal to terminate a pregnancy up to birth if there is a serious risk of a physical or mental abnormality. But ministers decided details of the conditions involved should not be published after a 2003 probe into an abortion of a baby with a cleft palate.
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