Make late abortions easier, urges charity chief
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Thursday November 25, 2004
The Guardian
The beleaguered head of Britain's leading abortion-providing charity will today
inflame her critics by calling for women to be given easier access to
terminations over 20 weeks.
Ann Furedi, who came under fire after a newspaper revealed that the British
Pregnancy Advisory Service had helped women travelling to Spain for
terminations after the UK legal limit of 24 weeks, will tell her annual
conference of 250 doctors involved in abortion clinics that much of the current
debate is "ill-informed and exaggerated".
"We're going to argue that there are very good reasons why women require
abortions up to the legal time limit," she said yesterday. "The real scandal of
late abortions is that women well within the legal time limit cannot access
services because there are too few providers."
The BPAS came under attack after a journalist working for the Sunday Telegraph
who was 26 weeks pregnant sought their help, claiming she wanted an abortion.
She was referred to a clinic in Spain, where the law permits abortion beyond
the 24-week UK limit. The government's chief medical officer has been asked to
investigate.
Ms Furedi, chief executive of BPAS, says it is perfectly legitimate for the
agency to give women information about abortion providers abroad. When a woman
has sought help before the 24-week limit and BPAS has not been able to give her
an appointment, it has even made the arrangements for her.
The bigger issue, says Ms Furedi, which is being drowned out in the clamour, is
the shortage of provision for women who do not discover - or in some cases
admit to themselves - they are pregnant until near the legal limit, or who
change their minds.
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"We're saying that instead of being concerned about the problem of too many
late abortions taking place, the women who present themselves for them have
very good reasons and it should really be a priority within sexual health
care," she said.
BPAS provides 80% of late abortions - those after 20 weeks - but sometimes
cannot provide a termination within the legal time limit. Plenty of money has
gone into providing early abortion services within the NHS, she says, "but late
abortion services remain pretty neglected and nobody wants to talk about it
because it is controversial and an unpleasant procedure".
Just under 3,000 abortions out of nearly 20,000 are carried out after 20 weeks.
For those who leave it late, it is often an agonising decision, she said.
There may be circumstances in their lives that make the choice hard - they may
be trying to persuade their husband that he wants a child, or they may have
just discovered that he has had an affair and is about to leave.
A high proportion are teenagers of 14 or 15 who have not been able to face up
to the fact that they are pregnant and put off telling their parents.
"People's lives are incredibly complex," she said. The general perception of
abortion, on the other hand, is simplistic - that it is never a good thing, but
that early in pregnancy it is acceptable."
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(TonyZ2001) Spat the Words
Make late abortions easier, urges charity chief
And GWBush prefers killing the babies once they reach age 18.
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26 Nov 2004 04:19:01 AM |
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"R. Foreman" >eidpers@anti-spam.comcast.net
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tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) Spat the Words
Make late abortions easier, urges >>charity chief
And GWBush prefers killing the babies >once they reach age 18.
Do you know how stupid that statement is?
Tony
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26 Nov 2004 06:21:25 AM |
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(TonyZ2001) wrote in news:20041126051901.06305.00000815
@mb-m27.aol.com:
"R. Foreman" >eidpers@anti-spam.comcast.net
wrote:
(TonyZ2001) Spat the Words
Make late abortions easier, urges >>charity chief
And GWBush prefers killing the babies >once they reach age 18.
Do you know how stupid that statement is?
Tony
GWB seems to prefer killing people of all ages by his lax enforcement of
pollution laws, and i believe there are quite a few civilian casualties
in iraq too. When you start forking over some cash to take care of these
kids once there born, then your viewpoint might be worth something.
humans are just a race of successful viruses or weeds anyway
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27 Nov 2004 09:21:13 AM |
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allis chalmers
wrote:
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) wrote in news:20041126051901.06305.00000815
@mb-m27.aol.com:
"R. Foreman" >eidpers@anti-spam.comcast.net
wrote:
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) Spat the Words
Make late abortions easier, urges >>charity chief
And GWBush prefers killing the babies >once they reach age 18.
Do you know how stupid that statement is?
Tony
GWB seems to prefer killing people of all >ages by his lax enforcement of
pollution laws,
LOL!!!
Air and Water quality are better now than 30 years ago.
and i believe there are quite a few civilian >casualties in iraq too.
Yep, the Terrorists are killing many civilians with their car bombs.
When you start forking over some cash >to take care of these kids once there
born, then your viewpoint might be worth >something. humans are just a race of
successful viruses or weeds anyway
The sad thing is that most Liberals feel as you do.
Tony
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26 Nov 2004 06:34:35 AM |
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allis chalmers <zoong@bob.com> Spat the Words
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) wrote in news:20041126051901.06305.00000815
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"R. Foreman" >eidpers@anti-spam.comcast.net
wrote:
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) Spat the Words
Make late abortions easier, urges >>charity chief
And GWBush prefers killing the babies >once they reach age 18.
Do you know how stupid that statement is?
Tony
GWB seems to prefer killing people of all ages by his lax enforcement of
pollution laws, and i believe there are quite a few civilian casualties
in iraq too.
More than a few casualties here in the US too. This war is going
to be more expensive than the Bush geniuses ever expected.
When you start forking over some cash to take care of these
kids once there born, then your viewpoint might be worth something.
humans are just a race of successful viruses or weeds anyway
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25 Nov 2004 10:05:24 PM |
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R. Foreman wrote:
And GWBush prefers killing the babies
once they reach age 18.
That is correct. Let them grow up so he can send them off to Iraq to
die.
It's the GWB "Dude for Oil" program.
SuZanne
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26 Nov 2004 04:19:52 AM |
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tugbertswife@webtv.net (Su Zanadu)
wrote:
R. Foreman wrote:
And GWBush prefers killing the babies
once they reach age 18.
That is correct. Let them grow up so he can send them off to Iraq to
die.
It's the GWB "Dude for Oil" program.
SuZanne
Another uninformed, pinheaed moron who would rather kill a baby in the womb,
and she thinks she's "cool".
Tony
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27 Nov 2004 08:42:04 PM |
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On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 00:17:31 GMT, "R. Foreman"
<eidpers@anti-spam.comcast.net> wrote:
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) Spat the Words
Make late abortions easier, urges charity chief
And GWBush prefers killing the babies once they reach age 18.
Right. I'm no abortion fan (and I cetainly don't agree with any
abortion after the first trimester except for the health of the mother
(ie she'll die; or for a fetus that is incompatible with life) - but
if abortion is to be labelled "killing" (debate is still out), then
good ol' george in essence, believes in the killing of sentient beings
as opposed to non-sentient beings!
Hmm.. I'm just so *proud* of my president! Just wanna give 'em a big
hug! <gag>
Dani
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27 Nov 2004 10:50:58 PM |
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Dani
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"R. Foreman"
<eidpers@anti-spam.comcast.net> wrote:
tonyz2001@aol.com (TonyZ2001) Spat the Words
Make late abortions easier, urges >>charity chief
And GWBush prefers killing the babies >>once they reach age 18.
Right.
Wrong. Only a moron could come to such a conclusion.
Tony
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25 Nov 2004 09:18:43 AM |
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Keep running, coward. LOL
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