In December 2005 Jessen travelled to London to support a campaign to reduce the number of abortions under the UK Abortion Act and to speak at a parliamentary meeting at the House of Commons.
Madeleine Simms (6 September 1930 – 3 October 2011) was a British social campaigner and one of the architects of the Abortion Act 1967.
He was noted for his very strong support for the Abortion Act 1967 and for embryo research, and was a founder member of the Progress campaign group which promotes IVF.
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The Abortion Law Reform Association is a former advocacy organisation founed in 1936 by Janet Chance, Alice Jenkins and Joan Malleson which promoted access to abortion in the United Kingdom It campaigned effectively after World War II for the elimination of legal obstacles to abortion and the peak of its work was the Abortion Act 1967.