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New calls for buffer zones around UK abortion clinics – BBC News
[ad_1] ‘Medical leaders in the UK have launched a fresh call for buffer zones to be set up around abortion clinics to prevent activists targeting patients and staff.’ Full Story BBC News, 30th May 2022 Source: www.bbc.co.uk [ad_2]
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Women accused of illegal abortions in England and Wales after miscarriages and stillbirths | Abortion
[ad_1] Women in England and Wales who have suffered miscarriages or stillbirths are being investigated by police on suspicion of having illegal abortions, with some forced to hand over their phones and laptops for invasive “digital strip searches”. In one case in 2021, a 15-year-old girl who had an unexplained early stillbirth was subjected to…
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Dominic Raab says right to abortion does not need to be in bill of rights | Dominic Raab
[ad_1] Dominic Raab has expressed doubts about including the right to an abortion in the forthcoming bill of rights, saying the matter was already “settled in UK law”. A cross-party amendment intends to enshrine the right in the bill, though abortion in England and Wales was decriminalised in the 1967 Abortion Act, which exempts women…
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Woman detained under mental health law can make abortion decision – judge
[ad_1] A pregnant woman detained under the terms of mental health legislation is capable of deciding whether to have an abortion even though doctors say such a move would not be in her best interests, a judge has ruled. Judge Carolyn Hilder has questioned assessments made by specialists who concluded that the woman did not…
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Ex-soldier’s wife found guilty of murdering baby abandoned in woods
[ad_1] The wife of a former soldier has been found guilty of the murder of her newborn baby by abandoning him in woodland after she discovered she was pregnant too late to have an abortion. Silipa Keresi was convicted at Winchester Crown Court of the murder of Maliki Keresi who was found dead, wrapped in…
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‘Experienced’ LiP refused adjournment for pro bono counsel’s unavailability | News
[ad_1] A High Court judge has refused a litigant’s plea to adjourn a hearing date on the basis his preferred barrister was double booked on that date. Claimant Rupert St John Webster had secured the services of counsel pro bono to contest an application for his professional negligence claim to be struck out. The hearing…
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UK Human Rights Blog – 1 Crown Office Row
[ad_1] 25 October 2021 by Sapan Maini-Thompson In Crowter & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Secretary of State for Health And Social Care [2021] EWHC 2536 (Admin), the High Court considered the lawfulness of the provision in the Abortion Act 1967 which permits termination of a foetus after 24 weeks where there is…
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UK Abortion Legislation Does Not Protect The Right To Choose
[ad_1] The so-called ‘Heartbeat Bill’, successfully pushed through the Texas legislature in September 2021, is the end of already weak legal protection for women’s fundamental rights in the American state. While many may believe such challenges to reproductive rights could not be replicated here in the UK, our domestic legislation on abortion remains patchy, paternalistic…
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Judges Rule Abortion Law On Disability Does Not Violate Human Rights
[ad_1] The High Court has ruled against a legal challenge from a woman with Down’s syndrome which argued that permitting abortion up until birth for a foetus with certain disabilities is unlawfully discriminatory. Abortions can legally take place in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy in England, Scotland and Wales. Emergencies aside, two doctors must…
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Woman with Down’s loses abortion law fight – BBC News
[ad_1] ‘A woman with Down’s syndrome has lost her High Court challenge over a law that allows abortion up to birth for a foetus with the condition.’ Full Story BBC News, 23rd September 2021 Source: www.bbc.co.uk [ad_2]