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unusual facts about abortion in the United Kingdom



Abortion Law Reform Association

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.

British Pregnancy Advisory Service

In late 2004, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph presented a video to the British government (Health Secretary Dr John Reid and Chief Medical Officer Professor Sir Liam Donaldson) showing BPAS counsellors referring women whose pregnancies were too advanced for legal abortions in Britain (past 24 weeks) to a clinic in Barcelona, Spain.


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