BPAS team is awarded £3.85 million by Wellcome Trust to investigate Contragestive Time – very early medical abortion without needing to know that you are pregnant, ensuring a state of non-pregnancy – also to change our understanding of when reproduction and beginning of life occurs.

💊Contragestives operate in the invisible time between a possible conception and the possibility of an early abortion, ensuring a state of ‘non-pregnancy’ without it being known whether pregnancy ever existed.

💊Contragestive Time expands our understanding of the timing of reproduction to prepare the ground for the next generation of fertility control, moving beyond entrenched disagreements about the timing of ‘life’ and the ethics of contraception and abortion. Innovation is urgently needed and is likely to come in the form of pills taken weekly, monthly or just after a missed period.