Many people assume that women considering abortion have access to independent information and advice. In fact there is no legal guarantee that they do. Where counselling is available, it is often given by the very same private providers that carry out abortions and gain financially from them!
In the News
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August 31st, 2011
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August 31st, 2011
On 6 September MPs will debate an amendment to the Health and Social Care Bill, which seeks to enshrine in law the right of women to have full and free access to independent information, advice and counseling before going ahead with an abortion.
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August 31st, 2011
SAN DIEGO -- Alliance Defense Fund attorneys will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit against Christian student organizations at San Diego State University. The lawsuit involves a university policy that allows all non-religious student groups to require that their leaders and voting members agree with the groups’ beliefs but denies that same right to religious student groups.
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August 31st, 2011
Next week the House of Commons will debate new proposals that mean that every woman considering a termination should receive an offer of independent counselling provided by someone with no vested financial interest in the outcome of her decision. Under these moves counselling will be non-compulsory and will not be an obstacle to women who have already made up their mind.
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August 30th, 2011
A proposal to stop the 'factory-efficient' abortion process is about to re-open decades of fractious debate. Robert Mendick reports on the impending debate.
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August 30th, 2011
Couples who live together before they marry are 'significantly' more likely to end up divorced, says a report by a Christian think-tank. The study also discovered that more couples are cohabiting than ever before - with the average time living together before tying the knot doubling to three-and-a-half years in the past four decades.
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August 30th, 2011
An Australian woman is in a hospital intensive care united following a failed abortion at a clinic run by the British-based Marie Stopes International abortion business.
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August 30th, 2011
A boy of 11 has been treated in hospital after contracting a sexual disease, a shocking survey has found. He is the youngest among a group of children under 16 who have been treated for sexually transmitted infections in UK hospitals. The figures have revealed that almost 1,000 under-16s have been diagnosed with venereal diseases such as herpes, chlamydia and gonorrhoea in the past three years.
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August 30th, 2011
Forget the moral rights and wrongs. Forget, too, talk of a woman’s right vs a baby’s right. Britons should see abortion as a consumer issue. Then they ‘ll cheer Nadine Dorries MP for ending the monopoly enjoyed by some abortion providers. For years the Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire has campaigned to provide women seeking abortion with independent counselling; finally, the government has agreed.
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August 30th, 2011
Dr Evan Harris (LibDem), David Allen Green (LibDem) and Chris Bryant (Labour) aren’t at all happy with Nadine Dorries. In what is being billed as the biggest shake-up to abortion law in a generation, her modest proposal is that women should be offered independent counselling to give them a breathing space before proceeding with termination. ‘Pro-life’ campaigners estimate that some 60,000 children would be saved every year. ‘Pro-choice’ campaigners insist that it will mean more stress for the women concerned.