Research, data analysis, and commentary on abortion and declining birth rates.
Heidi Stewart, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS), is urging Parliament to update abortion law to allow women to self-administer medical abortions at home throughout the entire first trimester—raising the current legal limit from 9 weeks and 6 days to 11 weeks and 6 days. She cites a recent study from Scotland,... Continue Reading →
Doctors are legally obliged to have enough evidence to justify forming a good faith opinion that a woman’s pregnancy is below the 10-weeks limit before prescribing pills-by-post and enabling her abortion at home. The DHSC does not consider this to be possible in the absence of an in-person consultation. On 07 November 2023, Scott Benton... Continue Reading →
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) is promoting a new cohort study into the safety, efficacy, and acceptability of telemedicine early medical abortion by Aiken et al. published in BJOG here. RCOG lauds this as the largest data study into telemedicine abortion, whilst the authors caution that there are gaps and possible inconsistencies... Continue Reading →
