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... Continue Reading →
The abortion pill harms women
On 28 April 2025, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) published the largest-known study into complications arising from the use of the abortion pills.[i] Jamie Bryan Hall and Ryan T. Anderson, analysed data from a U.S. insurance claims database that included 865,727 patient cases in which mifepristone had been prescribed for an induced medical... Continue Reading →
FOI requesting HES data on the treatment of abortion complications in England, 2017 to 2023.
We have published a new report outlining findings from an FOI investigation in which we requested data related to the diagnosis of abortion complications, from all NHS Hospital Trusts in England. Key Points The Office for Health Improvement & Disparities (part of the Department of Health and Social Care) published a one-off report in November... Continue Reading →
New Study Reveals FDA Relied on Cherrypicked Data to Approve Dangerous Mail-Order Abortion Drugs
A new peer-reviewed article highlights major flaws in the data used by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove medical safeguards and in-person administering of abortion drugs. These flaws illustrate the ongoing problem of lack of quality abortion reporting data in the U.S. as well as in the United Kingdom. In April 2021,... Continue Reading →
We consider the possibility that the mere experience of pain, without the capacity for self reflection, is morally significant. We believe that fetal pain does not have to be equivalent to a mature adult human experience to matter morally, and so fetal pain might be considered as part of a humane approach to abortion. Derbyshire... Continue Reading →
Reconsidering Fetal Pain.
My 2013 MPH dissertation is online at PLOS ONE: "Reach and Cost-Effectiveness of the PrePex Device for Safe Male Circumcision in Uganda".
MPH Dissertation.
Women on Web in Poland.
In November 2018, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (Great Britain) published a study into the safety and acceptability of medical abortion through telemedicine provided by Women on Web in Poland. This study noted: a lack of certainty in the self-reporting of gestational age; an increasing need for surgical intervention as GA increased; and... Continue Reading →
