Tag: Gestational Age

Promoting what they won’t provide: the double standard in the push for abortion decriminalisation

Behind the call for decriminalisation lies a practical reality: providers avoid later‑term medical abortion because of its risks, complexity, and resource demands—yet campaign for women to be legally permitted to attempt these procedures alone at home. The three organisations spearheading the push for abortion decriminalisation—BPAS, MSI-RC, and RCOG—are pressing to strip away every legal safeguard... Continue Reading →

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Call to allow at-home abortions up to 12 weeks GA

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 →

Listen to the all of the data, not just some of it.

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 →

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